Sports Quotes
“The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies they're scripted.”
“Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.”
-- Peter Ueberroth
“We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.”
-- Peter Farrelly
“Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.”
-- Phil Jackson
“Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.”
-- Paul Coffey
“I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.”
-- C. J. Box