Sayings and Quotes

“This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn’t have spectators.” ~Dick Vertleib

“When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.”~ Larry Bird

“You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.”~ Micheal Jordan

“There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.” ~Abe Lemons
The other one I guess is the wrestling of other kind, without the costumes

“Basketball doesn’t build character it reveals it.” ~ Author Unknown

“I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.” ~Tom Tolbert

“I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don’t do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.”~Micheal Jordan

“They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.” ~ Wilt Chamberlain

Here are some of my favorite Basketball Quotes.

“We have a great bunch of outside shooters. Unfortunately, all our games are played indoors ” ~Weldon Drew

“As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don’t know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.” ~Kobe Bryant

“If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I’d watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.” ~ Bobby Knight

“Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they’re afraid they might get hit by a pass. ” ~George Raveling

“Talent wins games, but team work and intelligence wins championships.” ~Michael Jordan

“Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.”~ Bill Vaughn

“When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.” ~Darryl Dawkins

“You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.” ~Bobby Knight

“I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.” ~ Shaquille O’Neal

“We’re shooting 100 percent – 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.” ~Norm Stewart

“I haven’t been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.”~Dave Barry

These are some golf quotes that we though you might find interesting. These are mostly by golfers or comments by famous people on the game of golf.

“Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.”
~Abba Eban

“It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.”
~Hank Aaron, 1971

“Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.”
~ Johnny Miller

“If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.”
~Sam Snead

“Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.”
~William Wordsworth

“Golf is a game in which you yell “fore,” shoot six, and write down five.”
~ Paul Harvey

“Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.”
~ Johnny Miller

“Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.”
~Jack Benny

“Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?”
~ Al Boliska

“Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.”
~Michael Bamberger

“One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot – the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something. ”
~Peter Jacobsen

“You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.”
~Grantland Rice

“Talking to a golf ball won’t do you any good. Unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off.”
~Bruce Lansky

“If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.”
~Jack Lemmon

“When I’m on a golf course and it starts to rain and lightning, I hold up my one iron, ‘caus I know even God can’t hit a one iron.”
~Lee Trevino

Hope you enjoy these quotes and share it with your friends.

This is a short collection of my favorite soccer quotes. As a soccer fan yourself, I am sure you will love them. Feel free to use them on your soccer fan pages or blogs. And some football quotes too

“Everything is practice.”
~Pele

“I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that’s playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.”
~Ronaldinho

This is a soccer quote by Maradona, “I worked hard all my life for this. Those who say I don’t deserve anything, that it all came easy, can kiss my ass.”

“If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.”
~Bill Shankly

“If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.”
~Bill Shankley

This is a soccer quote by Sven-Goran Eriksson, ” The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”

A Soccer Quote by Alex Ferguson, “The philosophy of a lot of European teams, even in home matches, is not to give a goal away.”

“Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.”
~Mia Hamm

“Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.”
~Dennis Bergkamp

“Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is playing simple football.”
~Johan Cruyff

There is a saying that the Latin Americas is famous for football and revolutions, as been rightly put here “In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team.”
~ Luis Suarez

“I was always taught as a kid if you do something, do it right. If not, go do something else. For me, soccer was life.”
~Marcelo Balboa

“Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.”

“Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.”
~Ondino Viera

Soccer quote by Bobby Charlton, “Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.”

” A sport where the players actually enjoy getting hit in the head by a ball.”

Bill Shankley on being first, “If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.”

I found this one very funny, ” The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it.”
~ Graeme Le Saux

“I’m here to score a lot of goals. It’s my speciality, that’s what I’ve been brought here to do, and I want to score plenty ; like I did with Barcelona. And here, there’s every reason to think I can do it.”
~ Ronaldo

“Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.”
~Pele

Another funny quote:
“I used to go missing a lot…Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.”
~ George Best

“Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God’s. The sixth day is for football.”
~Anthony Burgess

\”Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That’s perfectionism. That’s what makes you progress in life.”
~ Eric Cantona