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Quote Sport Unquote

There are more quotes such as those on this page in my recently published eBook Quote Sport Unquote. More quotes, more sports,more humour. Available for the Kindle at Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com for just US0.99.

Athletics

 

You can’t train the way I do and go out with girls.

Joaquim Cruz, churchgoing baptist, teetotaller and Brazil’s Olympic 800 metre gold medalist

 

Apart from becoming sweaty and uncomfortable, trainers are not designed for long periods of wear. The sole and midsole wear out too quickly. After about a month you might as well be wearing plimsolls.

Vivian Grisogono, chartered physiotherapist

 

I don’t have a Daley Thompson complex. Someday I’ll beat him, I’m sure. Of course I may be 80 by then

Jurgen Hingsen

 

The French cannot produce great track and field teams like it can produce great wines for probably that very reason. The winemakers got in first.

Michel Lourie, French national coach.

 

There was so much barging and shoving; it was like trying to get into a Glasgow pub on a Saturday night.

Tom McKean

 

I don't really see the hurdles. I sense them like a memory.

Ed Moses

 

I went through a stage of feeling awful to one of feeling terrible. Once I started to feel terrible I was OK.

Steve Ovett on the California Mile

 

In my first marathon I got excited, even euphoric. It was a feeling I never had on the track. On the road competitors hand around sponges. In a 5,000 all they give you are elbows.

Dick Quax

 

Running doesn't make anyone immortal. It doesn't bestow or confirm identity. And it can't infuse meaning and purpose into lives that are otherwise unfulfilled.

Dr Richard Restak, neurologist, speaking after the death of Jim Fixx, credited with popularising jogging.

 

Stella was a very nice person, very quiet. But I only saw her on the mount, never in the changing rooms or in our hotel in Los Angeles.

Hilda Sisson on Stella Walsh who was discovered to have no female sex organs after a post mortem conducted when she was shot dead outside a store in Cleveland. Sisson was beaten into second place by Walsh who won the gold in the 1952 Olympics

 

I'm just a normal Aussie guy who likes a smoke and a drink. I wish they'd had the final between 2am and 4am. I might have won.

Jai Taurima, on his non-athletic lifestyle

 

I haven’t been this happy since my grandmother caught her tit in a mangle.

Daley Thompson

 

When I lost my world record I took it like a man; I only cried for ten hours.

Daley Thompson

 

One reason that Finland produces such great runners is that back home it costs $2.40 for gas.

Esa Tikkanen, Finnish marathon runner.

 

There is no secret to running - run hard, have a beer, have a pizza. We make it too complicated.

John Walker