#ports

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. ↗

— Sam Snead

#club #death #fork #golf #golf club

Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for. ↗

— Michael Wilbon

#live #sports #us

I've always loved sports and hockey is a sport I play as much as I can. I love it. In a weird way it's like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one. I mean when I play hockey I don't think about anything. ↗

— Michael Vartan

#always #anything #church #exercise #hockey

Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball. ↗

— Magic Johnson

#basketball #die #educate #everyone #give

We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour. ↗

— Philip Knight

#company #end #fitness #focus #making

Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick. ↗

— George Leonard

#make #meal #sick #spice #sports

When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it. ↗

— Willie Mays

#called #clock #enjoy #field #game

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds. ↗

— John McGraw

#crowds #easygoing #fight #hot #methods

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players. ↗

— Michael Michele

#because #i #i think #opposing #people

The reporter asked, "why did you play so hard." "Because there might have been somebody in the stands today who'd never seen my play before, and might never see me again" -Joe DiMaggio ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

#joe-dimaggio #million-dollar-throw #sports #baseball