19th-century Sports Figure Quotes

Gichin Funakoshi

Thomas Hughes

Ty Cobb

Jack Johnson

Christy Mathewson

W. G. Grace

J. C. Ryle

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

Christy Mathewson

We all have to learn, in one way or another, that neither men nor boys get second chances in this world. We all get new chances to the end of our lives, but not second chances in the same set of circumstances; and the great difference between one person and another is how he takes hold and uses his first chance, and how he takes his fall if it is scored against him.

Negro women, no less than white women, must be prepared for the responsibilities of citizenship if they are to discharge their duties to the government under which they live and if they are to be capable of watching intelligently their own interests, and of using their ballot in preserving and promoting these interests.

Lucy Diggs Slowe

The modern theory that you should always treat the religious convictions of other people with profound respect finds no support in the Gospels. Mutual tolerance of religious views is the product not of faith, but of doubt.

Apply the way of karate to all things. Therein lies its beauty.

Gichin Funakoshi

A good Judoka never anticipates his action in a match, but his mind is as clever as a polished mirror which enables him to foresee precisely anything to happen and he displays freedom of his physique to cope with any change. Such mental state and physical action are called sei or tranquility and do or action, sometimes they are called ju and go or tenderness and sturdiness, in and yo or negative and positive, etc.

Do not be tempted to invest in a sample of each golfing invention as soon as it makes its appearance. If you do, you will only complicate and spoil your game - and encumber your locker with useless rubbish.

The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke.

There are no chasms in science, and so long as knowledge is man's knowledge, it is one. The world is not made in compartments answering to university lectureships.

George Sandeman

I don't know, but I do know that if anyone does he'll be bloody tired.

To some people cricket is a circus show upon which they may or may not find it worth while to spend sixpence. To others it is a cult and a philosophy, and these last will neve be understood by the profanum vulgus, nor by the merchant-minded nor by the unphysically intellectual.

Humbleness and effeminacy are not things that a great cricketer can afford to have.

Aubrey Faulkner

Cricket has more in it than mere efficiency. There is something called the spirit of cricket, which cannot be defined.

Lionel Tennyson

He revolutionised cricket. He turned it from an accomplishment into a science.

K. S. Ranjitsinhji

Forty years on, when afar and asunder Parted are those who are singing today.

Edward Ernest Bowen

I once admitted—to my shame—
That football was a brutal game.
Because She hates it.

Alfred Cochrane

Churches don't need new members half so much as they need the old bunch made over.

Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.

However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.

I will defend my title as heavyweight champion of the world against all comers, none barred. By this I mean black, Mexican, Indian or any other nationality without regard to color, size or nativity. I propose to be the champion of the world, not the white or the Canadian or the American or any other limited degree of champion.

The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.

Bob Fitzsimmons

I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty.

If you feed a cold, as often done, you frequently have to starve a fever.

Bernarr Macfadden

Is it unmanly to cry? If so, I must confess my unmanliness, for on this occasion it was impossible for me to repress the tears from coursing down my cheeks, as I realized that the last of nature's grandest and noblest earthly beings had passed away. But the tears I shed apparently softened my nature, and as I stood buried in the depth of meditation concerning the preceding events, I became impregnated with the desire to try and do some real good in the world; to make myself useful to mankind; to live for others instead of myself alone.

We are too apt to attribute to accident or occult influence that which we cannot understand.