Sports Quotes

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Bud Wilkinson

The sports page records people's accomplishments; The front page nothing but their failures.

Jutice Earl Warren

Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.

Yogi Berra

We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.

Ed Vargo

You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

Joe DiMaggio

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

John Robinson

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Erma Bombeck

Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

George Will

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Joe Theismann

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography and the dancers hit each other.

Jack Handey

If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

Vince Lombardi

Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.

Rita Rudner

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base.

Dave Barry

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Vince Lombardi