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| "Jag har hört att idrott är en karikatyr av livet." "Det var skönt att höra. Jag var rädd för att den var livet." | Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) |
| 90 procent av alla ishockey spelare är vänsterskyttar och resterande 5 procent är högerskyttar | Christer Abrahamsson |
| Alla sporter är till för alla personer. | Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) |
| bara boxare blir berömda med ett slag. | Gerhard Uhlenbruck (1929-) |
| Boxning är det som händer när en grupp vita män ser två svarta män klå upp varandra | Muhammad Ali (1942-) |
| Dansa som en fjäril och stick som ett bi. | Muhammad Ali (1942-) |
| Den stora sporten börjar där den sedan länge har slutat upp att vara frisk. | Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) |
| Den ålder när idrottare drar sig tillbaka blir hela tiden lägre. Jag förutser att de första sexåriga kvinnliga succégymnasterna år 200l drar sig tillbaka därför att de har blivit förälskade i sina teddybjörnar. | Werner Schneyder |
| Det finns ingenting som är så härligt att se som när glada idrottsmän är ... glada! | Kjell Kristian Rike (1944-) |
| Det är bara ett jobb. Gräset gror, fåglarna flyger, vågorna slår mot stranden och jag klår upp folk. | Muhammad Ali (1942-) |
| Det är bara idrottsmän och dumbommar som hoppar över där gärdesgården är högst. | Jesper Klein |
| Det är barnsligt att tro att man kan få människor att älska varandra. Att få dem att respektera varandra är inte någon fullständigt utopisk tanke. Men det fordrar först och främst att de känner varandra. Måtte Olympiska spelen bidra till det. | Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) |
| Det är roligt att se en målvakt som sätter pris på att rädda. | Bent Svele (1962-) |
| Du missar 100% av skotten du inte skjuter! | Wayne Gretzky (1961-) |
| En minut är en minut! | Kjell Kristian Rike (1944-) |
| I en annan match fick vi se en naken man och inte något snyggt mål. | Ernst A. Lersveen (1953-) |
| jag hade slutat med golf för länge sedan- om jag inte haft så många golftröjor. | Bob Hope (1903-2003) |
| Jag har blivit 90 år för att jag aldrig har ägnat mig åt någon form av sport. | Hans Brix |
| Jag har samma förhållande till sport som till porr. Det är roligt att vara med men tråkigt att se på. | Jytte Hilden |
| Jag ska klå honom så mycket att han kommer att behöva ett skohorn för att få på sig hatten. | Muhammad Ali (1942-) |
| Jag spelar golf för att vara i form för Gud. | Billy Graham (1918-) |
| Jag är boxningens astronaut. Joe Louis och Jack Dempsey är bara jaktpiloter. Jag är i en helt annan värld. | Muhammad Ali (1942-) |
| Joggning är för människor som är för dumma för att se på tv. | Victoria Wood (1953-) |
| Ju ädlare en idrottsgren är desto färre åskådare har den. | Sigmund Graff |
| Kvinnor har bara en enda uppgift i sport, nämligen att kröna vinnaren med segerkransen. | Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) |
| När jag lägger skridskorna på hyllan, ska jag spender pengar som en full sjöman. | Sonja Henie (1912-1969) |
| När jag var tolv, försökte varje liten flicka i Ryssland ha sitt hår som jag och spela tennis. | Anna Kournikova (1981-) |
| Om du bara kan karate, spelar det ingen roll om du har underkläder på dig eller inte. | Germaine Greer (1939-) |
| Självklart har det förekommit olyckliga dödsfall i boxning, men ingen av dem har varit särskilt allvarlig. | Alan Minter |
| Sport är en värld för sig, brutal, själlös, okänslig. Fotbolls-VM var en bitter erfarenhet för mig. | Barbara Dickmann |
| Sport är ett barn av framåtskridandet och bidrar på egen hand till familjens fördummande. | Karl Kraus (1874-1936) |
| Sport är som krig utan dödandet. | Ted Turner (1938-) |
| Sporten bidrar till den mellanfolkliga förståelsen eftersom den hela tiden kastar till folken nya stridsäpplen som de kan avreagera sin nationalism på. | Sigmund Graff |
| Stå inte med hälarna i fickorna! | Arne Scheie (1944-) |
| Vad är det med norska domare? Ser norska domare något annat än alla andra domare i världen? | Arne Scheie (1944-) |
| vad är en sportdåre? | Arne Scheie (1944-) |
| Vi går ut och värmer upp i rektangulära cirklar! | Christer Abrahamsson |
| The danger of parachuting young enthusiastic scientists into a flower bed of selected data and fully bloomed conceptions should be underestimated. | A. Lwoff |
| In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that. | Alvin Dark |
| A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone. | Andrew H. Malcolm |
| Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place. | Ben Crenshaw (1952-) |
| Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns. | Bernard Ingham (1932-) |
| The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people. | Bill Veeck (1914-1986) |
| The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two. | Bobby Jones (1902-1971) |
| Sometimes the game of golf is just too difficult to endure with a golf club in your hands. | Bobby Jones (1902-1971) |
| It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it. | Bobby Jones (1902-1971) |
| Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television. | Bob Greene |
| Golf has more rules than any other game because golf has more cheaters than any other game | Bruce Lansky |
| I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different. | Carl Yastrzemski (1939-) |
| A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball. | Christy Mathewson (1880-1925) |
| If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life. | Chris Evert (1954-) |
| Any minute, any day, some players may break a long standing record. That's one of the fascinations about the game, the unexpected surprises. | Connie Mack (1862-) |
| I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself. | Connie Mack (1862-) |
| When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something | Dick Butkus (1942-) |
| I don't know any other way to lead but by example. | Don Shula (1930-) |
| I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale. | Early Wynn (1920-) |
| In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game. | Earl Weaver (1930-) |
| What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adversity, but lousy in bed. It is a myth invented by jealous foreigners. | Gerald McKnight |
| I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators. | Gerald R. Ford (1913-1913) |
| It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. | Hank Aaron (1934-) |
| Topping the ball is a problem that usually afflicts only beginning golfers, and it is quickly left behind once a player has learned to master the hook, the slice, the shank, and the airball | Henry Beard |
| It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication. | Herb Elliott (1938-1938) |
| In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em. | Honus Wagner (1874-) |
| Sports is the toy department of human life. | Howard Cosell (1918-1995) |
| As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid. | Irvin S. Cobb (1876-1944) |
| The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. | Jean Claude Killy (1943-) |
| An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honour that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any World Title to have won gold at the Olympics. | Jeff Fenech |
| Football Is an honest game. It's true to life . It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life. | Joe Namath (1943-) |
| Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. | John Leonard |
| Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples. | Juan Antonio Samaranch (1920-) |
| It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer. | Larry Bird (1956-) |
| We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell "jump shot" rather than how to shoot it. | Larry Hawkins |
| If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually. | Lila Acheson Wallace |
| I squirm when I see athletes praying before a game. Don't they realize that if God took sports seriously he never would have created George Steinbrenner. | Mark Russell (1932-) |
| Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become | Mary McGrory (1918-2004) |
| Representing Australia as an Olympian at Barcelona in 1992 and Atlanta 1996 were the proudest moments of my sporting career. | Michael Diamond |
| Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was. | Mickey Mantle (1931-1995) |
| We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity. | Mike Newlin |
| A good catcher is the quarterback, the carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the traffic cop and sometimes a lot of unprintable things, but no team gets very far without one. | Miller Huggins |
| Any ballplayers that played for me on either the Cardinals or the Yankees could come to me if he were in need and I would give him a helping hand. I made only two exceptions, Carl Mays and Joe Bush. If they were in a gutter, I'd kick them. | Miller Huggins |
| A team championship doesn't happen because three people score 10s, it happens because all the guys score well. In my opinion, everyone deserved 10s, we're all 10s on this team. | Mitch Gaylord (1961-) |
| When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare. | Oren Lyons, Jr. |
| When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb. | Patanjali |
| 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 Marshall (1927-1949) |
| The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. | Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) |
| It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players | Red Smith (1905-1982) |
| When badminton was accepted into the Barcelona Olympic Games it showed that there was an acceptance of my sport internationally. | Rhonda Cator (1966-) |
| Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen | Robert Mugabe (1928-) |
| I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh. | Rod Carew (1945-) |
| I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. | Rogers Hornsby (1896-1963) |
| I want to enjoy the full pleasure of our victory, but then turn to new things I hope to achieve in football. | Ronaldo (1976-) |
| Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability. | Russell Mark (1964-) |
| The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature | Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) |
| Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts. | Tommy Lasorda (1927-) |
| No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind. | Tom Watson (1949-) |
| It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly. | William Sloan Coffin |
| In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100% dedication, you won't be able to do this. | Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) |
| Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. | A. A. Milne (1882-1956) |
| Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that. | Andre Segovia |
| I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies. | Anna Kournikova (1981-) |
| There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me. | Anna Kournikova (1981-) |
| When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player? | Anna Kournikova (1981-) |
| Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented. | Arnold Palmer (1929-) |
| Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. | Babe Ruth (1895-1948) |
| I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. | Ben Hogan (1912-1997) |
| Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots. | Ben Hogan (1912-1997) |
| You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees. | Bill Lee (1946-) |
| Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But this is certainly not the case. | Bobby Jones (1902-1971) |
| If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. | Bob Hope (1903-2003) |
| I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do. | Branch Rickey (1881-1965) |
| After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases. | Branch Rickey (1881-1965) |
| Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. We own this shit. Basketball, baseball, football, golf, tennis, and as soon as they make a heated hockey rink we'll take that shit too. | Chris Rock (1966-) |
| What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time. | Chuck Tanner (1929-) |
| The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit. | Earl Weaver (1930-) |
| The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers. | Earl Weaver (1930-) |
| I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy. | Emma Bunton (1976-) |
| Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. | George F. Will (1941-) |
| Sport is a very important subject at school, that's why I gave Quidditch such an important place at Hogwarts. I was very bad in sports, so I gave Harry a talent I would really loved to have. Who wouldn't want to fly? | Joanne Kathleen Rowling (1965-) |
| Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball. | Mickey Mantle (1931-1995) |
| A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team. | Pat Riley (1972-) |
| The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age. | Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) |
| Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. | Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) |
| I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player. | Reggie Jackson (1946-) |
| I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports. | Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) |
| Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. | Robert Graves (1895-1985) |
| Thinking instead of acting is the number-one golf disease. | Sam Snead (1912-2002) |
| The only reason I played golf was so that I could afford to go hunting and fishing. | Sam Snead (1912-2002) |
| My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it. | Tommy Lasorda (1927-) |
| There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation. | Umberto Eco (1932-) |
| We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax. | Whitey Herzog (1931-) |
| The triumph cannot be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams. | Wilma Rudolph (1940-1994) |
| Sports do not build character. They reveal it. | John Wooden (1910-) |
| Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. | Michael Jordan (1963-) |
| It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer. | Larry Bird (1956-) |
| The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. | Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) |
| When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb. | Patanjali |
| The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. | Jean Claude Killy (1943-) |
| Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life. | Chris Evert (1954-) |
| In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100% dedication, you won't be able to do this. | Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) |
| I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. | Rogers Hornsby (1896-1963) |
| The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time. | Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) |
| When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts. | Tommy Lasorda (1927-) |
| If the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop them. | Yogi Berra (1925-) |
| People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defences, or the problems of modern society. | Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) |
| I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports. | Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) |
| If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. | Bob Hope (1903-2003) |
| Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented. | Arnold Palmer (1929-) |
| Sports is the toy department of human life. | Howard Cosell (1918-1995) |
| In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that. | Alvin Dark |
| Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators. | Avram Noam Chomsky (1928-) |
| Games lubricate the body and the mind. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| I find golf very relaxing.it's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive. | Bill Gates (1955-) |
| There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them. | Bill Klem |
| “I’m for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can’t be done.” | Bill Veeck (1914-1986) |
| Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television. | Bob Greene |
| Sometimes the game of golf is just too difficult to endure with a golf club in your hands. | Bobby Jones (1902-1971) |
| You are only as good as the coach thinks you are. | Brian Williams (1969-) |
| The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or in defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.. | Bruce Lee (1940-1973) |
| If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner. | Casey Stengel (1891-1975) |
| A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball. | Christy Mathewson (1880-1925) |
| Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now. | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all others are games. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before. | Felix Sabates |
| You can't have Gomer Pyle any more driving a race car, Those days are over. You've got to have somebody that at least looks good and can talk in front of a TV camera, and can sit down and talk to the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. | Felix Sabates |
| Being a part of both organizations, there is no comparison in the two organizations. This is a professional organization. The Hornets were just -- I don't know what the hell it was. There is no explaining for them. | Felix Sabates |
| We had a convicted felon as the president. ... And no organization. | Felix Sabates |
| What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse | German Proverb |
| We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principle | Juan Antonio Samaranch (1920-) |
| There is no such thing as a natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls. | Lee Trevino (1939-) |
| Golf is a good walk spoiled. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst. | Martina Navratilova (1956-) |
| "I'm not involved in sport, I'm commited.""Do you know the difference?""Think of eggs and ham!""The chicken is involved but the pig is commited!" | Martina Navratilova (1956-) |
| Every chance is an opportunity. | Matti Nykänen |
| Tomorrow is always the future. | Matti Nykänen |
| The chances are fifty-sixty. | Matti Nykänen |
| I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. | Mia Hamm (1972-) |
| To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck - to pay up, to own up, and to shut up, if beaten, are the virtues of a sporting man | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete. | Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) |
| The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them. | Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) |
| A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport. | Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) |
| The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity. | Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) |
| Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for. | Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) |
| I've never timed myself over 100m, but I have done a test over shorter distances, 20m or 30m, with and without the ball. What's strange is that I'm faster with the ball than without it. Some people are born for distance running and others for sprint | Ronaldo (1976-) |
| One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it. | Satchel Paige (1906-1982) |
| I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA. | Shaquille O'Neal (1972-) |
| Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player. | Steffi Graf (1969-) |
| There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game. | Ted Williams (1918-2002) |
| The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time. | Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) |
| When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| In baseball, you don't know nothing. | Yogi Berra (1925-) |
| Bjørn Wirkola skjøt hardere med hoppski på beina! | Ivar Hoff |
| Det er bare tekniske feil som er igjen av norsk damehåndball. | Ernst A. Lersveen (1953-) |
| Det er bedre å ikke falle én gang enn noen gang. | Kjell Kristian Rike (1944-) |
| Det er de gode som har flaks! | David Coleman |
| Det er den raskeste tiden noensinne - men ikke så raske som verdensrekorden. | David Coleman |
| Det er ingenting som er så godt å se som når glade idrettsfolk er . glade! | Kjell Kristian Rike (1944-) |
| Det er lettere å hoppe kort enn langt. | Tommy Ingebrigtsen (1977-) |
| Det finnes fremdeles en stor majoritet som er for eller imot proffboksing. | Ulrika Messing |
| Det viktigste er å gå fortest, og så skyte best og fortest. | Jon Herwig Carlsen (1937-) |
| Du går så lett på denne jord. Det er så vidt du setter spor. | André Bjerke (1918-1985) |
| Et skihopp er et kunstverk, et skihopp er som erotikk. Alt avgjøres i brøkdelen av et sekund på hoppkanten. | Ole Paus (1947-) |
| Facinasjonen ved skyting som sport, avhenger av hvilken side av geværet du er på. | P. G. Wodehouse (1881-) |
| Golf er en ødelagt spasertur. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Golf er et spill hvor målet er å få en veldig liten ball oppi et veldig lite hull, med våpen som ikke passer til formålet. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Han gikk et godt løp, men han utnyttet også den redskapen han hadde fått. | Kjell Kristian Rike (1944-) |
| Jeg har alltid sett på cricket som organisert dagdriverliv. | William Temple (1881-1944) |
| Jeg måtte hatt foreldre med raskere fibrer om jeg skulle vinne sammenlagt. | Ådne Søndrål |
| Jeg regner med at jeg kan være mester i ti år, og så lar jeg broren min overta - akkurat som Kennedyene nede i Washington. | Muhammad Ali (1942-) |
| Jeg tør si, vi elsket våre ski. Vi klappet og kjælte dem hver gang vi spente dem på. | Roald Amundsen (1872-) |
| Min selvbiografi skal hete Stafett er stafett! | Jon Herwig Carlsen (1937-) |
| Nå går Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset nesten som han lister seg hjem fra fest. | Kjell Kristian Rike (1944-) |
| Når vi arrangerer verdensmesterskap i idrett, inviterer vi også andre land til å delta. | John Cleese (1939-) |
| Om tåka letter, vil det være en fordel på sikt. | Lars Lystad |
| På skier har jeg rent; jeg har spurt meg frem; de frittet hvor jeg skulle; jeg svarte: jeg skal hjem. | Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) |
| Stafett er stafett! | Jon Herwig Carlsen (1937-) |
| Til alles ergrelse kom hjerteanfallet midt i Sportsrevyen. | Nils-Fredrik Nielsen (1945-) |
| Vi er tålmodige. Vi har sittet her år etter år og ventet. Og sett nordmenn dette ned på kulen og andre steder. | Arne Scheie (1944-) |
| Vi kan ikke bruke vår beste matjord til golfbaner. Det gjelder både på Hedmarken og andre steder i landet.f | Lars Sponheim (1957-) |