Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.

Dr. James Naismith

I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles.

Sam Snead

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

Jerry Barber

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

H.L. Mencken

Most games are lost, not won.

Casey Stengel

The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.

Neville Cardus

I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another.

Al Oerter

We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition.

Nick Seitz

As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.

Kevin Keegan

Professional wrestling's most mysterious hold is on its audience.

Luke Neely

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

Sylvester Stallone

I know we're meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we're still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives.

Rob Lee

There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both.

James Reston

It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.

J.J. Bentley