Your brain commands your body ...

Your brain commands your body to ""Run forward! Bend! Scoop up the ball! Peg it to the infield!"" Then your body says, ""Who, me?""

~Joe DiMaggio~

You've got just one problem. Y...

You've got just one problem. You stand too close to the ball - after you've hit it.

~Sam Snead~

You've also got to rebound the...

You've also got to rebound the basketball, and I think Hartley will be the biggest challenge we've faced this year.

~Tom Petty~

You need to play with supreme ...

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

~Joe Paterno~

you have to beat the best to b...

you have to beat the best to be the best

~Source Unknown~

You have to be able to center ...

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go.  Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

~Kareem Abdul-Jabbar~

With the money I'm making, I s...

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

~Pete Rose, 1977~

Winning is overrated. Th...

Winning is overrated.  The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

~Al McGuire~

When we played, World Series c...

When we played, World Series checks meant something.  Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

~Don Drysdale, 1978~

When it comes to sports I am n...

When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested.  Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.

~Fran Lebowitz~

When I see joggers go by, I sh...

When I see joggers go by, I shout, ""Jim Fixx is dead. Fats Domino lives!""

~Jason Chase~

When cerebral processes enter ...

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up.  It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state.  You have to separate mind and body.

~Bill Lee~

What a terrible round. I only ...

What a terrible round. I only hit two good balls all day and that was when I stepped on a rake in a bunker.

~Lee Trevino~

We have forty-four defenses fo...

We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.

~Al Attles, on Nate Archibald~

We didn't lose the game; we ju...

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

~Vince Lombardi~

We can't win at home and we ca...

We can't win at home and we can't win on the road.  My problem as general manager is I can't think of another place to play.

~Pat Williams~

We are inclined that if we wat...

We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it.

~John F. Kennedy, 1961~

Unlike any other business in t...

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.

~Lewis H. Lapham, Money and Class in America, 1988~

To think of playing cricket fo...

To think of playing cricket for hard cash!  Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

~Mary Russell Mitford, 1823~

To me, boxing is like a ballet...

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

~Jack Handey~