Sports Quotes
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.”
“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