Sports quotations

Sports serve society by

providing vivid examples

of excellence.
George F. Will (1941 - )

Sports do not build

character. They reveal it.

Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939)

It's not so important who

starts the game but who finishes it.
John Wooden (1910 - )

If it weren't for baseball,

many kids wouldn't

know what a millionaire

looked like.
Phyllis Diller

Desire is the most

important factor in

the success of any athlete.
Willie Shoemaker

Baseball is 90% mental,

the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra (1925 - )

Listen to our feathered friends.

I value my garden more for
being full of blackbirds than
of cherries, and very frankly
give them fruit for their songs.
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719),

There'll be bluebirds over the
white cliffs of Dover,Tomorrow,
just you wait and see.
Nat Burton, White Cliffs of Dover

Birds sing after a storm; why
shouldn't people feel as free to
delight in whatever sunlight
remains to them?
Rose Kennedy (1890 - 1995)

No bird soars too high if he
soars with his own wings.
William Blake (1757 - 1827)

When thou seest an eagle,
thou seest a portion of genius;
lift up thy head!
William Blake (1757 - 1827)

You cannot fly like an eagle
with the wings of a wren.
William Henry Hudson
(1841 - 1922),