best quotations about
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Quotations
 | If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score? — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 47 likes |
 | There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Romeo & Juliet 37 likes |
 | We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 31 likes |
 | Life is a zero sum game. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 25 likes |
| It's never just a game when you're winning — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 24 likes |
 | When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. — Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, American President [1901-1909] 20 likes |
 | In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 17 likes |
 | The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 14 likes |
 | The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. — Pierre de Coubertin, 1863-1937, French, father of the Olympic Games 13 likes |
| Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 12 likes |
| We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 12 likes |
 | Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. — Paul Rodriguez, 1955-, American comedian 10 likes |
 | It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 9 likes |
| Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 9 likes |
| Winning medals wasn’t the point of the Olympics. It’s the participating that counts. — Pierre de Coubertin, 1863-1937, French, father of the Olympic Games 8 likes |
 | Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games. — Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, American writer, Nobel 1954 7 likes |
 | What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher 7 likes |
| Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes. — Pierre de Coubertin, 1863-1937, French, father of the Olympic Games 6 likes |
 | 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, British writer 5 likes |
| Players with fight never lose a game, they just run out of time. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 5 likes |
| Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 5 likes |
 | It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 4 likes |
| Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 4 likes |
 | After a point, and so on, money stops to matter, it stops being the goal, the game is all that matters. — Aristotle Onassis, 1900-1975, Greek tycoon 3 likes |
 | Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 3 likes |
 | You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience. — David Lloyd George, 1863-1945, British Prime Minister [1916-1922] 3 likes |
| Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 3 likes |
| Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport. — Pierre de Coubertin, 1863-1937, French, father of the Olympic Games 3 likes |
| Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law. — Pierre de Coubertin, 1863-1937, French, father of the Olympic Games 2 likes |
 | As to the species of exercise, I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. — Thomas Jefferson, 1749-1826, American President [1801-1809] 2 likes |
| Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history. — Pierre de Coubertin, 1863-1937, French, father of the Olympic Games 2 likes |
| In no way can sport be considered a luxury object. — Pierre de Coubertin, 1863-1937, French, father of the Olympic Games 2 likes |
| Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 2 likes |
| The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age. — Pierre de Coubertin, 1863-1937, French, father of the Olympic Games 2 likes |
 | Football is a gentleman’s game played by hooligans, and rugby is a hooligan's game played by gentlemen. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 |
 | I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round. |
| My trainer don’t tell me nothing between rounds. I don’t allow him to. I fight the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It’s too late for advice. |
 | He knew everything in theory, nothing in practice... He knew the moves, he’d never played the game. |
 | I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures. |
 | A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. |
 | Football is popular because stupidity is popular. |
 | Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
| To be sure of winning, invent your own game, and never tell any other player the rules. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, for someone to play against himself is absurd... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow. |
Latin Quotes
 | Faster, Higher, Stronger Citius, Altius, Fortius. — Motto of the Olympic Games (initially, a motto of Pierre de Coubertin’s school) 147 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly. — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 6 likes |
 | The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public. — Phyllis Diller, 1917-2012, American comedian 6 likes |
 | The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall. — Mitch Hedberg, 1968-2005, American comedian 6 likes |
 | Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? — Dave Barry, 1947-, American journalist 5 likes |
| The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter. — Dave Barry, 1947-, American journalist 5 likes |
 | If at first you don't succeed then skydiving definitely isn't for you. — Anonymous 5 likes |
| Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That’s just common sense! — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 5 likes |
| Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. — Dave Barry, 1947-, American journalist 5 likes |
| If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too? — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 3 likes |
| Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down. — Dave Barry, 1947-, American journalist 3 likes |
| I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary. — Mitch Hedberg, 1968-2005, American comedian 3 likes |
 | I never go jogging, it makes me spill my martini. — George Burns, 1896-1996, American comedian 3 likes |
| Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
Proverbs
 | After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. 9 likes |
 | When two play a game, there must be a winner and a loser. 8 likes |
Special Quotes
 | Live in Your World, Play in Ours. — Slogan of Sony PlayStation 8 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Do not speak to me of rules. This is war! This is not a game of cricket! — from the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 7 likes |
 | Waaaarrrrrriiiorsss, come out to play-i-ay. — from the film The Warriors (1979) 5 likes |
