Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
—Eugene McCarthy
Most ball games are lost, not won.
—Casey Stengel
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
—Jim Bishop
I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.
—Frank Deford
The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.
—Dan Quisenberry
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
—George Will
I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.
—Reggie Watts
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
—Vince Lombardi
Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.
—P. J. O'Rourke
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
—Mark Twain
Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.
—Anthony Starr
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
—Bill Shankly
For when the One Great Scorer comes
To write against your name,
He marks-not that you won or lost-
But how you played the game.
—Grantland Rice
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
—Heywood Broun
Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
—Joe Theismann