Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

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.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.