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Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Willborn 1941International Herald Tribune (7 May 1990)
- Football
Most football teams are temperamental. That’s 90% temper and 10% mental.
DPDoug Plankborn 1953
- Football
There are only two places in the league⁠—first place and no place.
Tom Seaver1944–2020
If a man can beat you, walk him.
Satchel Paige1906–1982
- Baseball
All I want out of life, is that when I walk down the street folks will say, ‘There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived.’
Ted Williams1918–2002My Turn at Bat: The Story of My Life (1970), p. 7
- Baseball
Hitting is 50% above the shoulders.
Ted Williams1918–2002
- Baseball
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Muhammad Ali1942–2016
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.
Bryant Gumbelborn 1948
- Baseball
In short, in life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don’t foul and don’t shirk, but hit the line hard!
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919“The American Boy”, published in St. Nicholas 27, no. 7 (May 1900), p. 574
- Football
- Life & Death
When you’re talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you’d better train every part of your body!
Bruce Lee1940–1973Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview (1971)
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
John Steinbeck1902–1968Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962), Pt. 4
- Football
You may want to do a little autograph trading and I understand it takes five Hoovers to get one Babe Ruth.
Herbert Hoover1874–1964To a young autograph seeker, signing his name six times; as quoted in “Hoover Elated by Swift Turn From New Deal” by Philip Kinsley, Chicago Tribune (18 December 1935), p. 4
- Baseball
- Comedy
A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.
Bruce Lee1940–1973Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973); In a conversation with an older member of the temple.
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
Joyce Carol Oatesborn 1938On Boxing (1987)
- Men
The only real game — I think — in the world is baseball.
Babe Ruth1895–1948Farewell Address (1947)
- Baseball