Quotes · Reference dataset
Sports Quotes
Quotations about sports, paired with their attributed speakers or authors.
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| ID | Quote | Person |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | You can’t win unless you learn how to lose. | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
| 9 | Winners never quit and quitters never win. | Vince Lombardi |
| 8 | We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time. | Vince Lombardi |
| 7 | The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back. | Steve Garvey |
| 6 | The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it’s the opposition. | Nick Seitz |
| 5 | Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. | George F. Will |
| 4 | Sports do not build character. They reveal it. | Heywood Broun |
| 3 | Sport is imposing order on what was chaos. | Anthony Starr |
| 2 | 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 |
| 1 | I went to a fight last night and a hockey game broke out. | Rodney Dangerfield |
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Last checked against sources: October 15, 2026.
Last changed: July 17, 2026. This is when we last changed the data or its description. It doesn’t mean the data runs up to that date.
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