Sports is like a war without the killing

The triumph cannot be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams

The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter

You are only as good as the coach thinks you are

In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em

When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity

It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer

Sports is the toy department of human life

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world

A good catcher is the quarterback, the carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the traffic cop and sometimes a lot of unprintable things, but no team gets very far without one