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Sports Sayings, Quotes, Expressions and Slogans

Huge collection of sports sayings, quotes and expressions. Read through the entire page to find a variety of sports quotes and sayings about a variety of different sports.

Baseball Sayings and Quotes

Baseball Saying

I’m convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.
~Tom Clark

What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game…. There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife’s fidelity and his mother’s respectability.
~George Bernard Shaw

Baseball? It’s just a game – as simple as a ball and a bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It’s a sport, business – and sometimes even religion.
~Ernie Harwell

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Basketball Sayings and Slogans

When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.
~ Darryl Dawkins

The rule was “No autopsy, no foul.
~Stewart Granger

To win, you’ve got to put the ball in the macramé.
~Terry McGuire

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Cheer Sayings and Expressions

Cheerleading is life, the rest is just details.
~Unknown

All women are created equal…then a few become cheerleaders.
~Unknown

In any other sport, if you miss the catch all you lose is the ball.
~ Unknown

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Dance Quotes and Expressions

Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn’t stop at the end of your fingers, because you’re dancing bigger than that; you’re dancing spirit.
~Judith Jamison

There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.
~Edwin Denby

When the music changes, so does the dance.
~African Proverb

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Fishing Sayings, Slogans and Quotes

A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work
~ Unknown

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.
~Patrick F. McManus

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
~Ambrose Bierce

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Golf Quotes and Sayings

Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle.
~Unknown

Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.
~Robin Williams

Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.
~Heywood Hale Broun

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Football Sayings and Slogans

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
~Dave Barry

The reason women don’t play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
~Phyllis Diller

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.
~George Plimpton

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Soccer Sayings and Quotes

Some people say soccer’s a matter of life or death, but it isn’t. It’s much more important than that.
~Unknown

I was always taught as a kid if you do something, do it right. If not, go do something else. For me, soccer was life. ~Marcelo Balboa

The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn’t move, kick it until it does.
~Phil Woosnam

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Softball Sayings, Slogans and Quotes

Love it, experience it, and when you step on the field just do what you do.
~Kirk Walker

If you don’t play fast-pitch, don’t say you play softball.
~ Unknown

No matter how good the pitcher, she is still hit-able in more than one way.
~ Kiersten

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Track Quotes and Sayings

Love it, experience it, and when you step on the field just do what you do.
~Kirk Walker

If you don’t play fast-pitch, don’t say you play softball.
~ Unknown

No matter how good the pitcher, she is still hit-able in more than one way.
~ Kiersten

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Volleyball Sayings and Expressions

My boyfriend OR volleyball? — When do we play?
~ Unknown

Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It’s fun, and nobody can get hurt.
~ Gail Parent

If someone in the team has problems, the other teammates have to make up for his bad day. It is part of every team sport, not just volleyball.
~Matey Kaziyski Bulgaria

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Chess Quotes: Chess, is it a game? A science? An art? Maybe a struggle. Chess is often compared to life and valuable knowledge can be derived from it. These chess quotes do just that.

Quotes on Sachin Tendulkar: Quotes on Sachin Tendulkar by other people. Sachin Tendulkar is one of the best Cricket players of all time and these quotes tell of his greatness.

Martial Arts Quotes: Martial Arts is more than a sport; it’s a way of life, a mindset, a philosophy, or a career choice. Here are some of my favorite martial arts quotes to turn to when examining my own views on martial arts, taken from some of the most famous and influential martial artists of their day.

Tennis Quotes: I’m a big fan of women’s tennis and I am going to list some funny and catty quotes from women tennis players. I love these quotes because they are highly entertaining to read.  They are fun and represents the rivalry between the players themselves.

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Soccer Sayings, Quotes, Expressions and Slogans

60 soccer sayings and quotes: Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. ~ Bobby Charlton In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the […]