Favorite Sports Quotes

[Tobacco&Gum]

Don't give up, don't ever give up.

- Jimmy V

[Peter_Spaeth]

Trying to sneak a fastball by Hank Aaron was like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster. (forget who said it)

He could throw a lambchop past a wolf. (sportswriter about Lefty Grove)

The third one sounded low. (anonymous batter complaining after fanning against Walter Johnson)

He's so good blind people come to the park to hear him pitch. (Reggie Jackson on Tom Seaver)

[VoodooChild]

"Roberto Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania" - Vin Scully.

[sycks22]

"Dave's a killer" "Dave's a mess" Slap shot

"Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains" Crash Davis

[Writehooks]

"Forecheck, backcheck, paycheck."
- Hockey Hall of Famer Gil Perreault, when asked by a neophyte Buffalo sportswriter to name the three most important aspects of the game.

"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."
& "He can run, but he can't hide."
- Joe Louis

"You're a white guy -- help me!"
- Heavyweight title challenger Randall "Tex" Cobb to referee Steve Crosson during the fifth round of the horrific beating Cobb took from world champion Larry Holmes in their 1982 title bout.

[Koufax32fan]

"I can see how he [Koufax] won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five." - Yogi Berra

"There are two times in my life the hair on my arms has stood up: The first time I saw the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and the first time I saw Sandy Koufax throw a fastball" - Al Campanis

"Trying to hit him [Koufax] was like trying to drink coffee with a fork." - Willie Stargell

[GoldenAge50s]

One of my all-time favorites that pertains not only to baseball, but to LIFE--

"Don't look back, somethin' may be gainin' on 'ya!"--Satchel Paige

[stlcardsfan]

[QUOTE=Writehooks;1239843
"You're a white guy -- help me!"
- Heavyweight title challenger Randall "Tex" Cobb to referee Steve Crosson during the fifth round of the horrific beating Cobb took from world champion Larry Holmes in their 1982 title bout.[/QUOTE]

And another classic came from Cobb after the fight was over. Howard Cosell was so disgusted over the beating he said he would quit doing boxing. When told about this by the media Cobb said "I'll go another 15 with Holmes if it gets him off Monday Night Football".

[btcarfagno]

"Luck is the residue of design."

- Branch Rickey

(although I believe he borrow it from someone else...)

Tom C

[brookdodger55]

Originally Posted by VoodooChild

"Roberto Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania" - Vin Scully.

Love that quote

[jerrys]

"Sometimes I still can't believe what I saw," said Harry Hooper, a Boston teammate of Ruth's. "This 19-year-old kid, crude, poorly educated, only lightly brushed by the social veneer we call civilization, gradually transformed into the idol of American youth and the symbol of baseball the world over - a man loved by more people and with an intensity of feeling that perhaps has never been equaled before or since."

[Howe’s Hunter]

"Lady, I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player."

John Kruk

[CowboysGuide]

When asked about his teams' execution after another poor game...

"I'm all for it!"

Jim McKay, Tampa Bay Buccaneers Head Coach

It's football but the OP says 'favorite sports quote'.

[iwantitiwinit]

"Bob, stop upper-cutting"

My Dad 1968

[DeanH3]

[QUOTE=Peter_Spaeth;1239794]Trying to sneak a fastball by Hank Aaron was like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster. (forget who said it)

I believe it was Bob Feller.

I have to go with a Yogi-ism- It's deja vue all over again.

[alaskapaul3]

Shoeless Joe Jackson favorite

"What a hell of a league this is. I hit .387, .408, and .395 the last three years and I ain't won nothin' yet!"

[brookdodger55]

Unknown

If I could see it, I could hit it.

Mike

[Harliduck]

[QUOTE=DeanH3;1239895]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Trying to sneak a fastball by Hank Aaron was like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster. (forget who said it)

I believe it was Bob Feller.

It was actually Joe Adcock....

[glenv]

In Toronto, Winfield was charged with cruelty to animals after a throw hit and killed a seagull. When asked about it, Billy Martin responded: "It's the first time he's hit the cutoff man all season."

[Rickyy]

"I ain't goin' on no time machine." - Marvin "Bad News" Barnes - St Louis Spirits... upon being told that he needed to board a team flight scheduled to leave Louisville at 8 a.m. and land in St. Louis at 7:59 a.m.

[parker1b2]

"Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini, they both show a lot, but not everything" - Toby Harrah

[Cat]

"Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when Ryan's throwing balls by you."

Reggie Jackson

[detroitbaseball]

"Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life." - Ty Cobb

[barrysloate]

This one was credited to Ralph Kiner in his recent obituary:

One of the Mets' sponsors was American Cyanamid. As they were breaking for commercial, Ralph said: "And now a word from our sponsor, American Cyanide."

[packs]

I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.

- Joe D


Another favorite:

I gave my life to baseball and I'll only be remembered for something that never happened.

- Charlie Root 2 days before his death

[CrazyDiamond]

Tom hanks in "A League of Thier Own" has one of my favorites pertaining to Baseball


"Its supposed to be hard, if it wasnt hard everyone would do it, the hard is what makes it great"

[tedzan]

Late afternoon, Oct 8th 1956, Yankee Stadium, an excited New York sports media surrounded Don Larsen baraging him with questions regarding his Perfect Game......

Larsen modestly responded...... "The Dodgers made it easy for me, I threw only 96 pitches"






TED Z