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 More about this quote Tags: politics analogy football sports Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most ball games are lost, not won. —Casey Stengel More about this quote Tags: winning sports losin Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. —Jim Bishop More about this quote Tags: humor USA men sports golf Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed. —Frank Deford More about this quote Tags: ethics sports irony wrestling professional wrestling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The best thing about baseball is there's no homework. —Dan Quisenberry More about this quote Tags: sports school baseball homework Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. —George Will More about this quote Tags: USA football sports violence committees meetings Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: science art football sports high school Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? —Vince Lombardi More about this quote Tags: winning sports scoring Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: sports alcohol drinking snow skiing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Golf is a good walk spoiled. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: sports walking golf Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sport is imposing order on what was chaos. —Anthony Starr More about this quote Tags: sports Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: death sports seriousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: sports Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sports do not build character. They reveal it. —Heywood Broun More about this quote Tags: sports Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein. —Joe Theismann More about this quote Tags: football sports Einstein Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email