Motivational Quotes II

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.


Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~ Japanese Proverb


It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
~ St. Clement of Alexandra



Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
~ Thornton Wilder


The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. ~ Arthur C. Clarke



We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
~ Aristotle


Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
~ Voltaire


Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action.
~ Benjamin Disraeli


You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind.
~ Author Unknown


Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
~ William B. Sprague


It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
~ Theodore Roosevelt



Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
~ Samuel Johnson


Fortune favors the brave. ~ Publius Terence


He who hesitates is lost. ~ Proverb


Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ~ Confucius



Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
~ Albert Einstein


Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
~ Winston Churchill


Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


For hope is but the dream
of those that wake.
~ Matthew Prior


Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
~ Lucretius


Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
~ Mary Shelley

Motivational Quotes I

To realize the value of one year: Ask a student who has failed a final exam.

To realize the value of one month: Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.

To realize the value of one week: Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize the value of one minute: Ask a person who has missed the train, bus or plane.

To realize the value of one millisecond: Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics.

Time waits for no one. Treasure every moment you have. You will treasure it even more when you can share it with someone special.

The Longer I Live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important that appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how we react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our attitudes. ~ Charles Swindoll

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength
from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little
minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves
his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. ~ Thomas Paine

Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become
actions; watch you actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they
become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. ~ Frank Outlaw

When the Master makes a mistake, she realizes it.
Having realized it, she admits it.
Having admitted it, she corrects it.
She considers those who point out her faults
as her most benevolent teachers.
She thinks of her enemy
as the shadow that she herself casts. ~ Tao Te Ching (translation by Stephen Mitchell)

DELIVERANCE

When people let go of goals and expectations,
they will find the source of their own creativity.
If not directed by others, they will find the best thing to do.

When profit and machinery are less important,
people become more creative.

If deliverance from these is not possible,
stay centered in your own resourcefulness and follow
the creative Tao.

~ Pamela K. Metz, The Creative Tao

Human beings have always employed an enormous amount of clever
devices for running away from themselves...we can keep ourselves busy, fill
our lives with so many diversions, stuff our heads with so much
knowledge, involve ourselves with so many people and cover so much ground that
we never have time to probe the fearful and wonderful world within....
By middle life, most of us are accomplished fugitives from ourselves.

~ John Gardner

You can gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. That is why we must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. ~ Pablo Picasso

Motivation Quotes II

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.


I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best. - Akeem Olajuwon


Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. - John Wooden


Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves. - Herman Cain


To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. - Donald Laird


You cannot raise a man up by calling him down. - William Boetcker


If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy. - Dwight D. Eisenhower


Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top ups. - Peter Davies


No one does anything from a single motive. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge


What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - Sir John Lubbock


Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose! - Max Schmelling


The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal. - Francie Larrieu Smith


I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated. - Howard Stern


This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. - George Van Valkenburg



There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do. - Marquis De Vauvenargues


Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. - Frank A. Clark

Motivation Quotes I

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.


If people are coming to work excited . . .
if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly . ..
if they're having fun . . .
if they're concentrating doing things,
rather than preparing reports and going to meetings
- then somewhere you have leaders.
~ Robert Townsend


When he reached the New World, Cortez burned his ships. As a result his crew was well motivated. ~The Hunt For Red October


Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you. ~ Stewart E. White


Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain.
Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life -- facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential. ~ John Amatt


We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. ~ Peter F. Drucker


Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. ~ Calvin Coolidge


Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today? ~ Mary Manin Morrissey


Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back.There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price. ~ Elie Wiesel


Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it. ~ Sir Winston Churchill


People prefer to follow those who help them, not those who intimidate them. ~ C. Gene Wilkes


The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction. ~ Ken Gilbert


I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities. ~ John Robinson


Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. ~ Harriet Braiker


You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do! - Bob Richards

Quotations About Soccer

If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game.... In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested. ~Stanley Rous


Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football. ~Anthony Burgess


Football is the opera of the people. ~Stafford Heginbotham, 1985


A sport where the players actually enjoy getting hit in the head by a ball. ~Soccer advertisement, published for the MetroStars Major League Soccer team, 1997


Concerning football playing, I protest to you it may rather be called a friendly kind of fighting, rather than recreation. ~Author Unknown


In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team. ~Luis Suarez


If you're attacking, you don't get as tired as when you're chasing. ~Kyle Rote



Soccer is not about justice. It's a drama - and criminally wrong decisions against you are part and parcel of that. ~Pete Davies

Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football. ~Ondino Viera



The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past. ~Desmond Morris


The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does. ~Phil Woosnam



The goalkeeper is the jewel in the crown and getting at him should be almost impossible. It's the biggest sin in football to make him do any work. ~George Graham, 1997


The rest of the world loves soccer. Surely we must be missing something. Uh, isn't that what the Russians told us about communism? There's a good reason why you don't care about soccer - it's because you are an American and hating soccer is more American than mom's apple pie, driving a pick-up and spending Saturday afternoon channel-surfing with the remote control. ~Tom Weir



All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport. ~Mike Royko, 1994



I think football would become an even better game if someone could invent a ball that kicks back. ~Eric Morecambe



Why is there only one ball for 22 players? If you gave a ball to each of them, they'd stop fighting for it. ~Author Unknown


Whenever the ball flew toward our goal and a score seemed inevitable, Jesus reached his foot out and cleared the ball. ~Author unknown



Up to five goals is journalism. After that, it becomes statistics. ~Author Unknown


I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting. ~George Orwell


Soccer is a game in which everyone does a lot of running around. Twenty-one guys stand around and one guy does a tap dance with the ball. ~Jim Murray



Some people say soccer's a matter of life or death, but it isn't. It's much more important than that. ~Variation of a famous saying

Quotations About Golf II

There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray. ~Lee Trevino


Golf is not just an exercise; it's an adventure, a romance... a Shakespeare play in which disaster and comedy are intertwined. ~Harold Segall


Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it. ~Robin Williams, 1986


Golf is hockey at the halt. ~Arthur Marshall, 1985


There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing? ~Peter Andrews


The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law. ~H.G. Wells


Golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture. ~Winston Churchill


The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. ~Ernest Hemingway


One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball. ~Don Carter


I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into building a hole or two and teach him how to play. ~Lee Trevino


Give me the fresh air, a beautiful partner, and a nice round of golf, and you can keep the fresh air and the round of golf. ~Jack Benny


Golf is a game in which the ball lies poorly and the players well. ~Art Rosenbaum


Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward. ~Ken Venturi


One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good. ~George Archer


Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards? ~Al Boliska


Golf is the most fun you can have without taking your clothes off. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez


"After all, golf is only a game," said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is a kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying. ~P.G. Wodehouse



The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course. ~Billy Graham


Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists. ~Heywood Hale Broun


Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out. ~Princess Anne of Great Britain


If you wish to hide your character, do not play golf. ~Percey Boomer


Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing. ~Ben Hogan


Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle. ~Author Unknown


To some golfers, the greatest handicap is the ability to add correctly. ~Author Unknown


If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. ~Jack Lemmon


I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. ~Joe E. Lewis


One almost expects one of the players to peer into the monitor and politely request viewers to refrain from munching so loudly on cheese and crackers while the golfers are trying to reach the greens. ~Pete Alfano


Golf without mistakes is like watching haircuts. A dinner without wine. ~Jim Murray


Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable. ~A.P. Herbert


If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina. ~H.L. Mencken



Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit? ~George Archer


A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do. ~Osbert Sitwell



Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them. ~Jimmy DeMaret


If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using "an outside agency" and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf. ~Henry Longhurst

The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie. ~George Deukmejian

Quotations About Golf I

I've spent most of my life golfing... the rest I've just wasted. ~Author Unknown


They call it golf because all of the other four-letter words were taken. ~Raymond Floyd


The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things. ~John Updike


Even God has to practice his putting. ~Golf Saying


The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. ~Pete Dye


I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart. ~Brent Musburger


If you're caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron. ~Lee Trevino


Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. ~Jim Bishop


I know I am getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators. ~Gerald Ford


"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf. The other is "Wear it if it clashes." ~Henry Beard


I can airmail the golf ball, but sometimes I don't put the right address on it. ~Jim Dent


It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot. ~Nubar Gulbenkian


Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses. ~Adlai Stevenson


I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose. ~Gerald Ford


A golf course is nothing but a poolroom moved outdoors. ~Barry Fitzgerald


After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez, on his Puerto Rican accent



It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. ~Hank Aaron, 1971


One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot - the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something. ~Peter Jacobsen


A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez


Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game. ~Phil Blackmar


The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did. ~Robert Browning


Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around. ~Rick Reilly


Golf is the cruelest of sports. Like life, it's unfair. It's a harlot. A trollop. It leads you on. It never lives up to its promises.... It's a boulevard of broken dreams. It plays with men. And runs off with the butcher. ~Jim Murray


Golf is essentially an exercise in masochism conducted out-of-doors. ~Paul O'Neil


Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill scoured by a whiff of arrogance. ~Alistair Cooke


Golf is not a game, it's bondage. It was obviously devised by a man torn with guilt, eager to atone for his sins. ~Jim Murray


Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result. ~Tommy Armour


Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five. ~Paul Harvey


In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference. ~Dan Quayle


The average golfer doesn't play golf. He attacks it. ~Jack Burke


Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. ~Tiger Woods

Quotes about baseball II

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up. ~Sharon Olds


Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus. ~John Fowles

It is well to remember that a Martian observing his first baseball game would be quite correct in concluding that the last two words of the National Anthem are: PLAY BALL! ~Herbert H. Paper


I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance. ~Ron Shelton

The great thing about baseball is that there's a crisis every day. ~Gabe Paul



The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck. ~Andre Dawson, on Montreal

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time. ~William C. Feather


Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. ~George F. Will


Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead. ~Jackie Robinson


Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in. ~Casey Stengel

Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics. ~Author Unknown


Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ~John Leonard


Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words. ~Ernie Harwell, "The Game for All America," 1955


Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything. ~Toby Harrah, 1983


Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don't any of these guys ever go fishing? ~Dave Shiflett



It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted. ~Bill Veeck


A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It's like the old days revived. We're loved and hated, but always in larger doses than any other team. We're the only team in any sport whose name and uniform and insignia are synonymous with their entire sport all over the world.... the Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined. ~Paul Blair, quoted in Washington Post, 22 June 1978


I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery. ~Ty Cobb


Baseball isn't a business, it's more like a disease. ~Walter F. O'Malley


England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example. ~Robert Benchley


Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width. ~Bill Veeck, 1975

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. ~Joe Garagiola


Baseball fans are junkies, and their heroin is the statistic. ~Robert S. Wieder


The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between. ~Bill Veeck



Confucious say: "Baseball wrong - man with four balls cannot walk." ~Author Unknown

Quotations About Baseball I

With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them. ~Art Hill


That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It's good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of 'em. ~Humphrey Bogart


Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. ~Jim Murray



Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? ~Jim Bouton



Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. ~Bruce Catton


The charm of baseball is that, dull as it may be on the field, it is endlessly fascinating as a rehash. ~Jim Murray



Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. ~Bill Veeck



Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated. ~Author Unknown

It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards. ~Mike Royko


Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people. ~Steve Busby


A baseball fan has the digestive apparatus of a billy goat. He can, and does, devour any set of diamond statistics with insatiable appetite and then nuzzles hungrily for more. ~Arthur Daley



A baseball park is the one place where a man's wife doesn't mind his getting excited over somebody else's curves. ~Brendan Francis



Baseball is not necessarily an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like washing your hands 100 times a day, but it's beginning to seem that way. We're reaching the point where you can be a truly dedicated, state-of-the-art fan or you can have a life. Take your pick. ~Thomas Boswell



Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead. ~Richard Gilman


The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. ~Bryant Gumbel



Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine. ~Pat Conroy


Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball. ~Pete Hamill



Baseball? It's just a game - as simple as a ball and a bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It's a sport, business - and sometimes even religion. ~Ernie Harwell, "The Game for All America," 1955



I don't love baseball. I don't love most of today's players. I don't love the owners. I do love, however, the baseball that is in the heads of baseball fans. I love the dreams of glory of 10-year-olds, the reminiscences of 70-year-olds. The greatest baseball arena is in our heads, what we bring to the games, to the telecasts, to reading newspaper reports. ~Stan Isaacs


Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average. ~Mark Kramer


Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams. ~Roger Kahn



Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot. ~Dick Gregory

Quotations About Basketball

Basketball is the MTV of sports. ~Sara Levinson


I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either. ~Dave Barry


I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air. ~Norm Sloan


Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass. ~George Raveling


We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line. ~Norm Stewart


The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy. ~Jerry Tarkanian


The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play "Drop the Handkerchief." ~James Naismith


This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators. ~Dick Vertleib



Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up. ~Bill Vaughn



If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love was on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs even if they were coming in fuzzy. ~Bobby Knight


When it's played the way is spozed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams. ~John Edgar Wideman


To win, you've got to put the ball in the macramé. ~Terry McGuire


I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet. ~Tom Tolbert


These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it. ~From a Charles Barkley commercial for basketball shoes, 1993


I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes. ~Tommy Tune, on why he never considered playing basketball


If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball. ~Phil Jackson


Nothing there but basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo. ~Ogden Nash


What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop? ~Woody Allen


We have a great bunch of outside shooters. Unfortunately, all our games are played indoors. ~Weldon Drew

Quotations About Tennis

Though your game is hardly the best
You can fray your opponent's nerves
By methodically bouncing the ball
At least ten times before your serves.
~Arnold J. Zarett


Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault. ~Nat Hentoff



The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood. ~Elliot Chaze


What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball. ~J.M. Barrie


Tennis is not a gentle game. Psychologically, it is vicious. That people are only just beginning to come to terms with this fact illustrates just how big a con trick has been perpetrated on the non-playing tennis public - and even a few players, usually losing players - for decades. ~Richard Evans


Speed in tennis is a strange mixture of intuition, guesswork, footwork and hair-trigger reflexes. Many of the players famed for quickness on court would finish dead last in a field of schoolgirls in a race over any distance more than ten yards. ~Eugene Scott


In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe. ~Elliot Chaze

It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines. ~Virginia Wade


It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball. ~Pete Sampras


Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world. ~Jacques Barzun


I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons. ~Yannick Noah


Love is nothing in tennis, but in life it's everything. ~Author Unknown


Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go. ~Russell Lynes


Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed. ~Billie Jean King


Good shot, bad luck, and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified. ~Virginia Graham


When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. ~Hugo L. Black


The serve was invented so that the net could play. ~Bill Cosby