Sports Quotes for Scrapbooks
Football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
--Frank Gifford
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in
Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
--George F. Will
Baseball is where boys practice being boys
and men practice being boys, and they
get real good at it.
--Mary Cecile Leary
If winning isn’t everything why do they keep score?
--Vince Lombardi
Scars heal, Glory fades and all we are left with are the memories made.
--Chris Cagle
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to
Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
--Bill Veeck
Anybody who watches three games of football in a
row should be declared brain dead.
--Erma Bombeck
We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
--Vince Lombardi
There is no I in TEAM.
--Unknown
Sports do not build character...they reveal it.
--John Wooden
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team,
but one man cannot make a team.
--Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz.
--Humphrey Bogart
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright.
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light.
And somewhere men are laughing, and little children shout,
But there is no joy in Mudville—
Mighty Casey has struck out.
--Ernest L. Thayer, “Casey at the Bat”
