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Sports Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson
- We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?
- The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
- When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
- February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not…
- One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel…
- I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is…
- I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They…
- The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening…
More Sports Quotes
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was… — J. J. Abrams
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. — Lance Armstrong
- The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight. — Arthur Ashe
- There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.' — Arthur Ashe
- Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch… — Red Auerbach
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen
- Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is… — Richard Bach