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Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Muhammad Ali1942–2016Attributed in Chambers Sporting Quotations‎ (1990), by Simon James, p. 27
When you’re as great as I am, it’s hard to be humble.
Muhammad Ali1942–2016
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Muhammad Ali1942–2016
You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn’t enough in the second half you give what’s left.
Yogi Berra1925–2015
Little League baseball is a good thing ‘cause it keeps the parents off the streets and it keeps the kids out of the house.
Yogi Berra1925–2015
- Baseball
In baseball, you don’t know nothin’.
Yogi Berra1925–2015
- Baseball
A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz.
Humphrey Bogart1899–1957
- Baseball
- Food
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
EBErma Bombeck1927–1996
- Football
- Men
God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.
Heywood Broun1888–1939
- Football
Boxing is just show business with blood.
Frank Brunoborn 1961
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
The crowd makes the ballgame.
Ty Cobb1886–1961
- Baseball
You teach me baseball and I’ll teach you relativity…no we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
- Baseball
My greatest challenge is not what’s happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their fucking perch. And you can print that.
Alex Fergusonborn 1941Said to The Guardian (September 2002)
- Motivation & Goals
Games lubricate the body and the mind.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790As quoted in Edge-Tools of Speech (1899) by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 177.