Sports Quotes – Sports holds an important place in every person’s life. Sports leads to good health and a good career. In the present times, sports also bring a lot of fame and money. Let’s read some of the best sports quotes from the world.
Sports Quotes – Boxing
It’s like any other business, only here the blood shows.
– Kirk Douglas in Champion, 1949
Wrapped in a heavy blue bathrobe and with a blue monk’s cowl pulled over his head, he climbed the steps to the ring with the cumbrous agility of a medieval executioner ascending the scaffold.
– A.J. Liebling on Rocky Marciano
It was like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face and busted it. I thought half my head was blowed off.
– Jim Braddock on being hit by Joe Louis
He went over like a six-foot sixty-year-old butler who has just heard tragic news.
– Norman Mailer on George Foreman hit by Mohammad Ali
Like watching an autopsy on a man who’s still alive.
– Sylvester Stallone on Mohammad Ali hit by Larry Holmes
Sports Quotes – Football
Brazilian football is like their inflation – 100 per cent.
– Jornal Da Tarde
Feet as sensitive as a pickpocket’s hands.
– Hugh Mcilvanney on George Best
I was born for soccer, just as beethoven was born for music.
– Pele’
Vinnie Jones is as discreet as a scream in a cathedral.
– Frank McGhee, The Observer
Sports Quotes – Cricket
To the spectators, cricket is more a therapy than a sport. It is like watching fish dart about a pool.
– Michael Wale
I am to cricket what Dame Sybil Thorndyke is to nonferrous welding.
– Frank Muir
The batsman’s technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasps’ nest.
– John Arlott
He approaches the wicket like Groucho Marx chasing after a pretty waitress.
– John Arlott on Asif Masood’s bowling action
Sports Quotes – Tennis
The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe… he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.
– Clive James
It is, perhaps, not too great a trespass against gallantry to point out that Wendy Turnbull is shaped like a Prince Po tennis racket.
– Martin Amis
Sports Quotes – Golf
Golf balls are attracted to water as unerringly as the eye of a middle-aged man to a female bosom.
– Michael Green, The Art of Coarse Golf
A golf-course is like a pool-room moved outsides.
– Barry Fitzgerald in Going my Way, 1949
Watching Sam Snead practise hitting golf balls is like watching a fish practise swimming.
– John Schlee
The Wrecking Crew were just leaving the eighteenth tee, moving up the fairway with their caddies and looking like one of those great race-migrations of the Middle Ages.
– P.G. Wodehouse, Chester Forgets Himself
I was swinging like a toilet door on a prawn trawler.
– David Feherty
Sports Quotes – Other Sports
In the steeplechase, Amos Biwott leaped the water jump as if he thought crocodiles were swimming in it.
– Joe Henderson
Most jockeys beat horses as if they were guards in slave-labour camps. Bill Shoemaker treated them as if he were asking them to dance.
– Jim Murray, The Los Angeles Times
If Jesus Christ rode his flaming donkey like you just rode that horse, then he deserved to be crucified.
– Fred Rimell to an amateur jockey
Dressing a pool player in a tuxedo is like putting whipped cream on a hot dog.
– Minnesota Fats
I was watching Sumo wrestling on the television for two hours before I realised it was darts.
– Hattie Hayridge
Watching Sumo wrestling from close quarters is like sitting on the outside of a hairpin bend during a grand prix for articulated lorries.
– Clive James
Grand Prix driving is like balancing an egg on a spoon while shooting the rapids.
– Graham Hill
The driving position is like lying in a bath with your feet on the taps, but not as comfortable.
– David Coulthard
Baseball is like watching grass – no, Astroturf grow.
– Jeff Jarvis, Entertainment Weekly
I felt like I was throwing God out of church.
– Drew Coble, umpire, after sending off a star player
If you’ve only got one day to live, come see the toronto Maple Leafs. It’ll seem like forever.
– Pat Foley
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