Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off.
The team has come along slow but fast.
You don’t suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
I was always a mean and lean athlete – not tall – not large.
If a man can beat you, walk him.
If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don’t have to waste energy going back to pick it up.
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
As athletes, we’re used to reacting quickly. Here, it’s ‘come, stop, come, stop.’ There’s a lot of downtime. That’s the toughest part of the day.
In football, time and space are the same thing.
You don’t hurt ‘em if you don’t hit ‘em.
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That’s where he’s getting his power from. He’s young and has great elasticity.
Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
If I weren’t earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball.
I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
I’m not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.
The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
If you got the game, you got the game. That’s why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
