Sports Quotes
“I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.”
“While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.”
-- Jerry B. Jenkins
“It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.”
-- Mark Twain
“Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.”
-- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.”
-- Gabrielle Union
“The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.”
-- Michael Lewis