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Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same thing
— Adolf Hitler
What they wanted from a hog was all the profits that could be got out of him; and that was what they wanted from the workingman, and also that was what they wanted from the public. What the hog thought of it, and what he suffered, were not considered; and no more was it with labor, and no more with the purchaser of meat.
— Upton Sinclair
The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
— Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy
For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.
— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
My dear, it is very nice here, every day two or three persons are stabbed by soldiers in the city; there are daily arrests, but apart from these it is pretty gay..
— Rosa Luxemburg, Cartas a Karl y Luise Kautsky
Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations of capitalism, preferring instead to lay out, calmly and ruthlessly, his reasons for believing that it is destined to be replaced by socialism. And that is why Nietzsche mocks Christianity for portraying its crucified Saviour as bait wriggling on a hook to catch unsuspecting souls.
— Robert Paul Wolff
They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.
— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
We disapprove of state education. Than the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Than the socialists say that we don't want an religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Than they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.
— Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
Nationalism and socialism as actually lived and applied in the 20th century are the same thing (and in the 18th and 19th century, nationalism was often a force for classical liberalism!). It’s all a kind of reactionary tribalism (another “ism” which becomes poisonous quickly as you up the dosage). When you nationalize an industry, you socialize it. When you socialize an industry you nationalize it. Yes, international socialism rejected this formulation. And that’s why international socialism failed! People wanted to be Germans or Russians or Italians and they wanted to be socialists. Even the Soviet Union embraced national-socialism (socialism in one country) because that 'workers of the world unite' crap wouldn't fly. After Stalin, no Communist or socialist regime failed to exploit nationalism to one extent or another.
— Jonah Goldberg
the elite use socialism as a consolidation and control mechanism. Allen describes Socialism as "a movement created, manipulated and used by power-seeking billionaires in order to gain control over the world." He points out that this is accomplished, "first by establishing socialist governments in the various nations" and then combining them all under the "United Nations." Socialism, in practice, is tyranny. It is control by the wealthy individuals who control the state. It is always oppressive, because they must use terror of some kind to create restrictive laws which ensure their control.
— Mark M. Rich, The Hidden Evil: The Financial Elite's Covert War Against the Civilian Population
The first premises of the Party...were two rooms above a corner junk shop, up two flights of rickety stairs. 'One felt' said a veteran member forty five years later in the Socialist Standard, that one was entering 'the heart of deep red revolution'.
— Robert Barltrop
A socialist must be 'class-conscious', recognizing his identity as a member of the working class and understanding his interests as permanently against those of the master class.
— Robert Barltrop
Seeking social equality for disabilities doesn't come from bullying or militancy, seeking social equality for disabilities comes is from realising the open-mindedness and acknowledgement of each person's reality
— Paul Isaacs
The Party's Object...' The establishment of a system of society based upon the common ownership and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the interests of the whole community'......was precise and legalistic. Correctness of definition and theory was all-important: in the minds of the men of new party, the failures of the existing organisations were simply the fruits of false theories. For the same reason, the Object did not mention the means of exchange. It was held that socialism, with free access to everything, there would be no exchange of goods; hence, to talk of the common ownership of the means of exchange was to show misunderstanding from the start.
— Robert Barltrop
Everything is subjective.
— Douglas Hsieh
Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people.
— Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
Marxian Socialism and Bolshevism are two historical phenomena which have hardly a single common denominator.
— José Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses
Yeah, it always amazes me how quickly people turn into good little socialists when they run out of their stuff. As long as they have something, it's theirs. Let them run out, and you need to share.
— A. American, Going Home
Whenever socialism appears it destroys at least one thing: diversity. Everything has to be "the best", but in reality as we know best things are scarse.. Let me remind you again, that for the Reds, "best" things are these things that they consider "the best" for us, not these that we like!!
— Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Allen agreed, writing, "If one understands that socialism is not a share-the-wealth program, but is in reality a method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of super-rich men promoting socialism becomes no paradox at all. Instead it becomes the logical, even the perfect tool of the power-seeking megalomaniacs." He reveals, "Socialism, is not a movement of the downtrodden masses, but of the economic elite.
— Mark M. Rich, The Hidden Evil: The Financial Elite's Covert War Against the Civilian Population
In 1987 Senator Jesse Helms, stated "it is no secret that the international bankers profiteer form sovereign state debt. The New York banks have found important profit centers in lending to countries plunged into debt by Socialist regimes. Under Socialist regimes, countries go deeper and deeper into debt because Socialism as an economic system does not work. International bankers are sophisticated enough to understand this phenomenon and they are sophisticated enough to profit from it.
— Mark M. Rich, The Hidden Evil: The Financial Elite's Covert War Against the Civilian Population
The quest to remove all inequality is the deadening hand of socialism and results in social stagnation.
— Cory Bernardi, The Conservative Revolution
For the Right, strikes are both devilish and pathetic, have both terrible and absolutely no effects.
— China Miéville, London's Overthrow
The most visible and often tragic sacrifice of proletarian socialism - not to mention internationalism - on the altar of nationalism, of course, has been by the states that proclaim themselves to be, or to aspire to become, socialist.
— André Gunder Frank
Thus posed, the problem of unbrotherliness can oppose socialism, which uses and abuses the word bortherhood while rejecting fatherhood. Socialism has no opponent. Religions, with their transcendental content, being "not of this world", with the Kingdom of God only within us, cannot stand up to socialism. Socialism may even seem to be an implementation of Christian ethics. Only the union of sons in the name of the fathers, as a counterweight to union for the sake of progress and comfort at the expense of the fathers, exposes the immorality of socialism. To unite for the sake of one's own comfort and pleasure is the worst way of wasting one's life - intellectually, aesthetically and morally.
— FEDOROV N.F
Socialists try to convince us that the tea becomes sweet not because of sugar, but because of mixing.
— Janusz Korwin-Mikke
You will never find peace with these fascistsYou'll never find friends such as weSo remember that valley of JaramaAnd the people that'll set that valley free.From this valley they say we are goingDo not hasten to bid us adieu Even though we lost the battle at JaramaWe'll set this valley before we're through.All this world is like this valley called JaramaSo green and so bright and so fairNo fascists can dwell in our valleyNor breathe in our new freedoms air.
— Woody Guthrie
I want to say that further you are not a great chief of this country. That you have no following, no power, no control." Logan continued, "You are on an Indian reservation merely at the sufferance of the government. You are fed by the government, clothed by the government, your children are educated by the government, and all you have and are today is because of the government. If it were not for the government you would be freezing and starving today in the mountains. I merely say these things to notify you that you cannot insult the people of the United States of America or its committees ...the government feeds and clothes and educates your children now, and desires to teach you to become farmers, and to civilize you, and make you as white men.-Senator John Logan, 1883
— Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Peace isn't the absence of wars provoked by a series of delinquents of all sort, but a dynamic process of cooperation between states and people...
— Ahmed Padia Binkatabana
If you are a beautiful lair, you are the most wanted person in the world.
— Rajesh
You could always industrialize,” she refilled Jimmy’s wine glass. “You know, get a job stunning chickens in a factory to earn the trust of the working class.” Jimmy laughed again and accidentally spat Chablis on my legs. “It’s a pretty silly idea, isn’t it?” said Grace, getting a rag. “Leaping out of the closet in a crisis?” She lowered her voice, “Don’t worry, sir. I’m a revolutionary socialist. Everything’s going to be okay.
— Vanessa Veselka, Zazen
Socialism is the way, the truth, and the light.
— Carl-John X. Veraja
Someday this war will be over. A new order of the world will appear in its place. The idea of Socialism will prevail. In the future they’ll remember us as heroes.”Thorkild aka ‘Borge’The Informer by Steen Langstrup
— Steen Langstrup, The Informer
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
— Mikhail Bakunin
One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.
— George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna
For my part, while I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race.
— Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
Advocates of capitalism like to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
— Bertrand Russell
For the writer under Actually Existing Socialism describing sex is a simple matter: he simply does not do it (the describing, I mean, not the sex).
— Philip Sington, The Valley of Unknowing
Judas became the spokesman of all those who through the centuries would protest the ornamentation of the Christian cult and would feel that, when the best of gold and jewels were given to the God Who made them, there was some slight made to the poor - not because they were interested in the poor, but because they were envious of that wealth.
— Fulton J. Sheen, Life of Christ
Why am I a socialist? Simple: Because I believe in freedom.
— Michelle Templet
What we do to others, we do to ourselves.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Socialists are convinced socialism will work if it's only managed by the right people. It's one of the reasons so many socialist countries wind up led by dictators. Socialist leaders inevitably become convinced that only they can manage the state properly, so it would be folly, they reason, to give up their hard-won power. That's how socialism always seems to wind up with people like Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot and Chairman Mao in charge.
— Tom    King
For you not to look scandalous, act educated.
— Jerson Armecin
My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
— Adyashanti, Emptiness Dancing
Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.
— Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures
In one moment, we are now forever,in one moment...
— Paul  Goldman, Journey Into Oneness
So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.
— Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state,
— Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
She attended the French performance, but the play's content now had a connection to her life. She read a book and the book invariably had lines with sparks from her mind, the fire of her emotions flickered here and there, and words spoken the night before were written down, as if the author had overheard how her heart beat.The forest held the same trees, but their sound had taken on special meaning; she had established a vibrant consonance with them. The birds did not simply twitter and chirp but were saying something to each other. Everything around her spoke and responded to her mood; a flower would blossom and she seemed to hear its breathing.pp. 256-257
— Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
Awakening will be sudden and shocking. You and I must be there for her awakening. We won`t be there for (her?) later on. That`s for other hands to do.
— L.J. Smith, Nightfall
I wonder if any night on earth will be like this one. It is like a night in a dream. The people about me are like some uncanny, half-human beings. There must be spirits abroad tonight.
— Kate Chopin
When Jill woke next morning and found herself in a cave, she thought for one horrid moment that she was back in the Underworld.
— C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
The second adventure involves the divine spark hidden in each soul and the dark times require that the inner light of soul be found again. Perhaps there is no greater time to awaken to the adventure the soul would have us live and become agents of the divine in this world.
— Michael Meade, The Genius Myth
Acceptance is not passivity. It is a courageous step in the process of transformation.
— Jack Kornfield, Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are
Every AWAKENING starts with a WORD. Speak positive things into your life.
— Oscar Bimpong
To live a life without awakening is to leave it as it was begun.
— Belsebuub
Seed mantras are the seeding suggestions to awaken the deep collective unconscious.
— Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being
Be confident. Be successful. Bebeautiful. Be intelligent. Be hard working. Be carefree. Be modest.Be driven. Be forgiving. Be creative. Be relaxed. Be motivated. Beeducated. Be thoughtful. Be kind. Be determined. Be good. Just beyou!
— Russell Strand, Wonderland
Third-eye is a gift from life. It’s the gift you receive when you travel the long path of both your external and internal reality towards the self.
— Roshan Sharma
To explain God after merely reading the scriptures is like explaining the city of New York after seeing it only in a map.
— Abhijit Naskar, Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a Scientist Who Found Himself by Getting Lost
Divinity is not a fashion. It is the way of life. It is the need of yourbeing, you have to become that.
— Dr Wayne Dyer
Don't be afraid to excuse yourself. Recharge for as long as you need. Lean up against a tree and take a break from the other bears. I'll be there too, but I promise not to bother you.
— Amy Schumer, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
I have never been as alive or awake as I have been through Jiu Jitsu.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
He still smelled of limes. It made saliva come into her mouth. It made her feel that before she had been sleepy, and now she was awake.
— Monica Ali, Brick Lane
English is not the language every person speaks, every country has different language, don't change your cultures letting western language or cultures affect it trust me you have many reasons to be proud of your country and the cultures.
— Unique Sapkota
I am bewildering you a little. Just enough to help you forget what you came to believe, so that you can remember what you’ve always known.
— Martha Beck
It was during that journey to Via Orazio that I began to be made unhappy by my own alienness. I had grown up with those boys, I considered their behavior normal, their violent language was mine. But for six years now I had also been following daily a path that they were completely ignorant of and in the end I had confronted it brilliantly. With them I couldn’t use any of what I learned every day, I had to suppress myself, in some way diminish myself. What I was in school I was there obliged to put aside or use treacherously, to intimidate them. I asked myself what I was doing in that car. They were my friends, of course, my boyfriend was there, we were going to Lila’s wedding celebration. But that very celebration confirmed that Lila, the only person I still felt was essential even though our lives had diverged, no longer belonged to us and, without her, every intermediary between me and those youths, that car racing through the streets, was gone. Why then wasn’t I with Alfonso, with whom I shared both origin and flight? Why, above all, hadn’t I stopped to say to Nino, Stay, come to the reception, tell me when the magazine with my article’s coming out, let’s talk, let’s dig ourselves a cave that can protect us from Pasquale’s driving, from his vulgarity, from the violent tones of Carmela and Enzo, and also—yes, also—of Antonio?
— Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend
There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even accepted that the man was ugly.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Awakening as a moment of now Awakening as an experienceAwakening as a momentthat is the same - today, yesterday or tomorrowAwakening of a Hinduist, of a Buddhist, of a Christianof a believer or a nonbeliever Awakening that lives within every single cellAwakening within no qualitiesas emptiness of Consciousnessas direct contactwith love and light and lifeexperiencedwith every breathAwakening as resting within true natureas acting from the true natureas RememberingAwakening as openingto the possibility of Now
— Nataša Nuit Pantović, Art of 4 Elements
Love and wisdom are guides towards awakening.
— Belsebuub
How would it feel if for an instance we stop being someone’s son/daughter, someone’s father/mother, someone’s husband/wife, someone’s lover, somebody’s employee, a countryman of some nation, a faithful devotee of some religion or a follower of some ideal and live only being a part of this wonderful, incredible and mysterious creation, wouldn't it would be something worth living for?
— Bikrant
The Illusion - The source of suffering can be linked back to a condition of the mind that creates the illusion of separation--the state in which we see ourselves as disconnected and separate from the world and our experiences.
— L.M.Blanchard
There is nothing left to seek for in this world when it can be exchanged for another one. No thought of gain or loss, winning or losing, success or failure ever had any meaning. Fantasy is not real and dreaming is not Being One. You are ready to Awaken to Oneness. And as you awaken the whole world awakens as well. For the world was never more than a misperception. As perception becomes whole, the single mind sees only wholeness. At last you are ready to see with Inner Vision, and you realize that physical sight was nothing but the illusion of being in the dark. The Light has come and it is time to rejoice! It is time!
— David Hoffmeister, Awakening Through a Course in Miracles
That absolute, ultimate reality is always there within us (as it is everywhere else, as well). whether we are aware of it or not, it is there, like the sun shining behind the clouds, invisible because of the clouds, but undeniably there. The sun of our inner nature, the LifeParticle Sun, is always shining, whether we see it or not. And because it is already there, we don't need to create or achieve it. We just have to acknowledge it.
— Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential
Today is a gift.Today is all I have.I will be fully awake in today.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What is awakening? Awakening is the cessation of self-deception! Religion is self-deception; fate is self-deception; the idea that there is no death but only continuation is a self-deception! Real awakening is to acquire a scientific mind, it is to meet face to face with the bare realities, and it is to leave the spiritual fallacies and fantasies! And this is real awakening!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
What you see as not neededWill return until you see that it needs to be.What you accept as neededNeeds not to remain unless you enjoy it to be.
— Raphael Zernoff
We" (your spirit guides and angels) believe in what-we-feel, you believe in how-you-feel.
— Linda Deir
This surprised me because it made me realize that what I sought was not outside myself. It was within me, already there, waiting. Awakening was really the act of remembering myself, remembering this deep Feminine Source.
— Sue Monk Kidd, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
The Invisible World reveals to us this Truth within its silence.
— Jacqueline Ripstein, The Art of HealingArt: The Keys to Power and Awareness
The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.
— Adyashanti
It is so easy to have our eyes opened, but then close them again, pretend it never happened, and go back to doing what has always been done.
— Jason M. Steffens, Never on Sundays: A Novel
Who looks outside dreams
—  who looks inside awakes.
Let the world kiss you, sister. Let the moment kiss the most raw and tender spot in your heart until you cannot help but surrender, open.
— Chameli Ardagh
I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness.
— Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
And then, some morning in the second week, the mind wakes, comes to life again. Not in a city sense—no—but beach-wise. It begins to drift, to play, to turn over in gentle careless rolls like those lazy waves on the beach. One never knows what chance treasures these easy unconscious rollers may toss up, on the smooth white sand of the conscious mind; what perfectly rounded stone, what rare shell from the ocean floor. Perhaps a channeled whelk, a moon shell, or even an argonaut.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea
What we can imagine we can make real
— Nadine   May, The Awakening Clan
I walked across a bridge that doesn't exist. And after that, being scared just didn't seem so important anymore.
— Erica Bauermeister, Joy for Beginners
Outside the study hall the next fall, the fall of our senior year, the Nabisco plant baked sweet white bread twice a week. If I sharpened a pencil at the back of the room I could smell the baking bread and the cedar shavings from the pencil.... Pretty soon all twenty of us - our class - would be leaving. A core of my classmates had been together since kindergarten. I'd been there eight years. We twenty knew by bored heart the very weave of each other's socks....The poems I loved were in French, or translated from the Chinese, Portuguese, Arabic, Sanskrit, Greek. I murmured their heartbreaking sylllables. I knew almost nothing of the diverse and energetic city I lived in. The poems whispered in my ear the password phrase, and I memorized it behind enemy lines: There is a world. There is another world. I knew already that I would go to Hollins College in Virginia; our headmistress sent all her problems there, to her alma mater. "For the English department," she told me.... But, "To smooth off her rough edges," she had told my parents. They repeated the phrase to me, vividly. I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface, and exit through it. Would I be ground, instead, to a nub? Would they send me home, an ornament to my breed, in a jewelry bag?
— Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
The score never interested me, only the game.
— Mae West
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game
— Babe Ruth
It ain't over 'til it's over.
— Yogi Berra
I've never lost a game I just ran out of time.
— Michael Jordan, For the Love of the Game
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing.
— Vince Lombardi Jr.
Adversity causes some men to break
—  others to break records.
Don't let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in.
— Michael Jordan, I Can't Accept Not Trying: Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
— Rodney Dangerfield
The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.
— Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals
[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing t
— David Halberstam, Everything They Had: Sports Writing
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
— Wayne Gretzky
Guys care about sports teams. I'm not talking about simply rooting; I'm talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to a sport team that guys take way more seriously than, for example, wedding vows.
— Dave Barry, Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys
Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it...and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!
— Jack London
football is like life - it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
— Vince Lombardi Jr.
In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.
— Eric Liddell
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
— Wilt Chamberlain
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.
— Hank Aaron
You don't just want to beat a team. You want to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see your face again.
— Mia Hamm
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.
— Yogi Berra
Everything you need is already inside.
— Bill Bowerman
Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.
— Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? 
— Jim Bouton
Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
— Phil Jackson
Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
— Knute Rockne
I read that Monica Seles got stabbed. And although I have nothing against Monica Seles, I'm glad somebody in sports got stabbed. I like the idea of it; it's good entertainment. If we're lucky, it'll spread through sports. And show business, too! Wouldn't you like to see a guy jump up on stage and stab some famous singer? Especially a real shitty pop singer? Maybe they'll even start stabbing comedians. Fuck it, I'm ready! I never perform without my can of mace. I have a switchblade knife, too. I'll cut your eye out and go right on telling jokes.
— George Carlin, Brain Droppings
I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.
— Alex Ferguson
I'm the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be.
— Bret Hart
I realize im black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybodys wish.
— Michael Jordan
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
— Gordie Howe
The strong one doesn't win, the one that wins is strong.
— Franz Beckenbauer
Sports fans eat shit.
— George Carlin, Brain Droppings
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. 
— Mike Singletary
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. 
— Eric Liddell
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
— Dan Gable
If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.
— Mia Hamm
My swag was phenomenal.
— Gilbert Arenas
(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it
—  it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. 
— Jesse Owens
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. 
— Eric Cantona
As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day. 
— Michael Jordan
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. 
— Tom Landry
Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts. 
— Phil Jackson
a lot of football success is in the mind. you must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
— Bill Shankly
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
wouldn't you like to make sure all those millions you give to Uncle Sam went to schools and hospitals instead of nuclear warheads?'As a matter of fact, he would. Playgrounds for big kids, preschool programs to little ones, and mandatory LASIK surgery for NFL refs.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Natural Born Charmer
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. 
— Ted Williams
So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.
— Rose Macaulay
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. 
— John Leonard
My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan
— Eric Cantona
Swimming is simply moving meditation.
— Cesar Nikko Caharian
i could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages
— Megan Boyle, Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
— Ernest Hemingway
I love the smell of the ice... And the cold. The sound the puck makes when it's sliding across the ice or when hits the net for a goal... as long as it's our goal. I love the sound of sticks crashing against one another. The sound my skates make when I come to a hard stop. The roar of the crowd. The way I feel when i'm playing. I can do things on this ice that I can't do anywhere else.
— J. Sterling, In Dreams
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
— Mark Twain
I'm playing
—  I'm here. I'm going to fight until they tell me they don't want me anymore.
Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.
— W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe
It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.
— Simon Kuper, Soccernomics
He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What story does this guy wish someone would tell him about himself? And then you told the guy that story.
— Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
Run and become.Become and run.Run to succeed in the outer world.Become to proceed in the inner world.
— Sri Chinmoy
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. 
— Ben Hogan
Like all the other arrivals to the tournament, Hank had erected a banner in front. It was a long, tapering pennant with a blue and red circular design in the center and the words GO CUBS! on both sides. Interesting," said Hugo. "What does it mean?"It was a gift from Sam," Hank explained as they entered the tent. "He said it used to represent Triumph over Adversity, but now better represents Impossible Quests and Lost Causes."I think I preferred not knowing that," said Hugo.Hank grinned. "You're a Sox fan too, hey?
— James A. Owen, The Indigo King
I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.
— Mark Messier
Cassidy's heart tried to leap out through his taught skin and hop into his wet hands. But outwardly it was all very calm, very serene, just as always, and it seemed to last a tiny forever, just like that, a snapshot of them all on the curved parabola of a starting line, eight giant hearts attached to eight pairs of bellows-like lungs mounted on eight pairs of supercharged stilts. They were poised on the edge of some howling vortex they had run 10,000 miles to get to. Now they had to run one more
— John L. Parker Jr., Once a Runner
If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this
— Peyton Manning
Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.
— James Barrett Reston, Uncle Anthony's Unabridged Analogies: Quotes and Proverbs for Lawyers and Lecturers
The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.
— Dave Zirin, A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play
If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason. They do not choose how, when, or whom they shove. All that has been decided for them in advance. All they need to do is follow the orders given to them before the game, showing them where to run and how to violently deploy the meat of their bodies against the meat that is running at them. They are doing this in order to please one angry old man on the sidelines. This old man is called the "coach" or "yelling surrogate dad who will never be happy.
— John Hodgman, That is All
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. 
— Bill Veeck
Cricket is baseball on Valium.
— Robin Williams
It's because you absolutely love the sport.
— Nastia Liukin
I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.
— Leo Durocher
I've fallen in love with baseball.
— Nick Jonas
In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.
— Bobby Charlton, Sir Bobby Charlton: The Autobiography: My Manchester United Years
On the road we're somebody else's guests and we play in a way that they'renot going to forget we visited them.
— Knute Rockne
The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.
— George Plimpton, Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback
The attraction of snowboarding is the freedom it gives you. With a snowboard on your feet the sky is the limit. You can do anything and go anywhere. This is not just for pro riders. It is for everyone.The other amazing thing with snowboarding is how easy it is to get away from people and enjoy the solitude of the mountains. Its almost impossible in surfing but with snowboarding it is a short hike from the top of the lift or the side of the road.
— Jeremy Jones
Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.
— Simon Kuper, Soccernomics
I'm not doing it for media attention, not doing it for sponsors, not for money.
— Nastia Liukin
Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt before would paralyze the diamond. For a moment of eternal stillness I felt as if I were cocked at the very heart of the Midwest.
— Stuart Dybek, Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories
Football is violence and cold weather and college rye. 
— Roger Kahn
Philippine culture was clearly different. It wasn't the fan's duty to remain aloof in the presence of stars
—  it was the player's responsibility to show gratitude to the average Filipino.
Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this.
— Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. 
— Red Auerbach
Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on. 
— Peter Ueberroth
Life is full of all sorts of setbacks and twists and turns and disappointments. The character of this team will be how well you will come back from this letdown, this defeat. You could still be a great team and you can still accomplish great things as football players but it's going to take a real resolve to do it." -Coach Ladouceur
— Neil  Hayes, When the Game Stands Tall, Special Movie Edition: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
Victories are a byproduct of a larger vision. It begins with a question: How much do we owe one another?Each coach's and player's individual answer is one of the building blocks of The Streak. De La Salle separates itself from the competition because everyone from the head coach to the least accomplished player on the roster is willing to make the sacrifices necessary to be their absolute best.
— Neil  Hayes, When the Game Stands Tall, Special Movie Edition: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
— Mickey Mantle
I've often told people that the greatness of this football program will emerge when The Streak ends. I hope you will all live up to that. It's all numbers. It's nothing. It's not what we're about. It's not what this school represents." -Coach Frank Allocco
— Neil  Hayes, When the Game Stands Tall, Special Movie Edition: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
You all know and lived the 'secrets' to De La Salle's success-love, brotherhood, sacrifice, discipline, heart, courage, passion, honesty. These are not just 'catch words' we throw around to impress others or justify our existence. We know what these mean because we created it and lived it. Understand that with that knowledge there is no turning back for us-ignorance is not an option. It is your future duty, no matter where you end up, to create the environment you have created here by bringing your best selves to the table.
— Neil  Hayes, When the Game Stands Tall, Special Movie Edition: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
I see great things in baseball.
— Walt Whitman
There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.
— Polly Horvath, Everything on a Waffle
I'd only seen Julius play a few times, but he had that gift, that grace, those fingers like a goddamn medicine man. One time, when the tribal school traveled to Spokane to play this white high school team, Julius scored sixty-seven points and the Indians won by forty.I didn't know they'd be riding horses," I heard the coach of the white team say when I was leaving....Hey," I asked Adrian. "Remember Silas Sirius?"Hell," Adrian said. "Do I remember? I was there when he grabbed that defensive rebound, took a step, and flew the length of the court, did a full spin in midair, and then dunked that fucking ball. And I don't mean it looked like he flew, or it was so beautiful it was almost like he flew. I mean, he flew, period."I laughed, slapped my legs, and knew that I believed Adrian's story more as it sounded less true.Shit," he continued. "And he didn't grow no wings. He just kicked his legs a little. Held that ball like a baby in his hand. And he was smiling. Really. Smiling when he flew. Smiling when he dunked it, smiling when he walked off the court and never came back. Hell, he was still smiling ten years after that.
— Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.
— Simon Kuper, Soccernomics
Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said "sure, every time".
— Mickey Mantle
The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.
— Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt
That's why he was here, to surrender himself to longing, to listen to his host recite the anecdotal texts, all the passed-down stories of bonehead plays and swirling brawls, the pitching duels that carried into twilight, stories that Marvin had been collecting for half a century--the deep eros of memory that separates baseball from other sports.
— Don DeLillo, Underworld
Every name looks fashionable when it's etched in silver. (Stanley Cup)
— Bruce Boudreau, Gabby: Confessions of a Hockey Lifer
I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.
— Hank Aaron
We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.
— Pat Conroy
Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty. 
— Harry Vardon
In sport the mind serves as the acolyte and apprentice of the body. Nothing interferes with the flow of the game more than the athlete who obsesses about his every move on the court. You move, you react, you recover, you drive, and the thinking is seamless and invisible in the secret codes of your game.
— Pat Conroy, My Losing Season: A Memoir
Sure, there is an undeniable pleasure in rooting for a winning team and in being able to look down on opposing fans with equal measures of superiority and disdain. But that's also the Ruthian drawback in rooting for the Yankees (along with high ticket prices, overpriced concessions and crude neighbors). The true pleasure in sports comes not from simply winning but from watching a team overcome adversity to win in the end. The joy of sports is never the final destination, it's the journey. It's experiencing the highs and lows, and appreciating those highs all the more because of the awful lows. 
— Jim Caple
And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
— Robert Montgomery Knight
The process begins during the off-season program, when players spend countless hours together and become heavily invested in the season before it even starts. It continues during these weekly meetings, when players stand and deliver heartfelt testimonials. You can't play for Ladouceur unless you're willing to stand in front of your teammates and bare your soul. You can't play unless you're willing to cry.
— Neil  Hayes, When the Game Stands Tall, Special Movie Edition: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
He's probably the only player who doesn't play for 10 months and, if he scores a hat trick in his first game back, no one would be surprised.
— Ryan Whitney
Boxing has become America's tragic theater. 
— Joyce Carol Oates
Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win. 
— Doug Collins
A baseball club for girls?
— Emily J. Proctor, The Baseball Club for Girls
He wants to play major college football at a university far away, where nobody will know about his tragic family history. Then he wants to play in the NFL.Every catch brings him closer to that reality. That's how he thinks of it, anyway. Every time he runs downfield, sees the ball in the air, and hears the defensive back laboring to catch up, whenever he feels that ball fall out of the sky and into his waiting hands, he inches closer to his goals.
— Neil  Hayes, When the Game Stands Tall, Special Movie Edition: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
I've never had an interest, but baseball looks abnormal.
— Emily J. Proctor, The Baseball Club for Girls
What if, when Tracy Austin writes that after her 1989 car crash, 'I quickly accepted that there was nothing I could do about it,' the statement is not only true but exhaustively descriptive of the entire acceptance process she went through?
— David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. 
— Grantland Rice