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.”
“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