Famous Quotes
"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."
- General George Patton Jr.
"You must do your damdest and win."
-General George S. Patton Jr.
"Just drive down that road, until you get blown up"
- General George Patton, about reconnaissance troops
"Whoever scores the most runs is usually gonna win the ball game"
- Tim McCarver:
"There is one thing I would break up over and that is if she caught me with another woman. I wouldn't stand for that."
- Steve Martin.
"You like me because of the structure unusual way my sentences."
- Steve Martin
"Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ballplayer. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in."
- Yogi Berra
"If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you."
- Paul Newman.
"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."
- Charles Barkley
"These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me,
they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.
- Charles Barkley
"Anyone who gets paid to stand there and listen to the Star Spangled Banner 82 times a years shouldn't be
allowed come off the bench to fight."
- Barkley on the Detroit Piston's reserve who sucker punched him when
he fought Bill Lambeer.
"He accused me of running up the score. He should have known better. At Oklahoma we throw the ball to
keep the score down."
- Barry Switzer
"You have only two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the
right side of your body and the right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are
the only people in their right minds."
-
Bill Lee
"Income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."
- Will Rogers
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
- Albert Einstein
"Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?"
- Albert Einstein
"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."
- Albert Einstein
"Try not to be a person of success, but rather a person of virtue."
- Albert Einstein
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
- Albert Einstein
"When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation
have no separate existence from matter."
- Albert Einstein
"I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings."
- Albert Einstein
"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."
- Albert Einstein
"If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?"
- Vince Lombardi
"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."
- Joe Theismann
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save
the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base."
- Dave Barry
"If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first
time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone
when a guy stands up and starts putting his jacket on."
- Lou Holtz, College football coach College football coach
"Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalised for
too many players on the field?"
- Jim Boulton
"We won! We won! We won! Um, unfortunately, I bet on the other team, so we won't be going for pizza."
- Chief Wiggum
"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team."
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, NBA Center
"After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy."
-Ben Franklin
"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
- Ben Franklin
"There are more old drunkards than old doctors."
- Ben Franklin