- Quotes by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons”. - Quotes by Christine Marie Evert
“In tennis, at the end of the day you’re a winner or a loser. You know exactly where you stand…I don’t need that any more. I don’t need my happiness, my well-being, to be based on winning and losing”. - Quotes by Joe DiMaggio
“A ball player’s got to be kept hungry to become a big-leaguer. That’s why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues”. - Quotes by William Cowper
“[On hunting] Detested sport, that owes its pleasure to another’s pain”. - Quotes by John Calvin Coolidge
“Baseball is our national game”. - Quotes by Linford Christie
“Irun with a controlled fear of losing. When you are frightened in that way it’s amazing what you can achieve”.
- Quotes by Jimmy Cannon
“Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime”. - Quotes by Frank Bruno
“Boxing is just show-business with blood“. - Quotes by The Bible
“Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? I like the hunting of the hare, Better than that of the fox”. - Quotes by Sir John Betjeman
“Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Furnish’d and burnish’d by Aldershot sun, What strenuous singles we played after tea, We in the tournament – you against me! Pam, I adore you, you great big mountainous sport girl, Whizzing them over the net, full of the strength of five”.
Tags: Christine Marie Evert, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Frank Bruno, Jimmy Cannon, Joe DiMaggio, John Calvin Coolidge, Linford Christie, Sir John Betjeman, Sports And Games, The Bible, William Cowper
Related Posts