To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

Mary Russell Mitford

The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

Abe Lemmons

I would have thought that the knowledge that you are going to be leapt upon by half-a-dozen congratulatory, but sweaty team-mates would be inducement not to score a goal.

Arthur Marshall

Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.

Alistair Cooke

Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start - but they can't when they finish.

Martin H. Fischer

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

Jack Handey

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

Vin Scully

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

Rita Rudner

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

Pete Rose

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

Don Drysdale

The trouble with referees is that they just don't care which side wins.

Tom Canterbury

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

Vince Lombardi

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

John Madden

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.

George Brett