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Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
4 other wisdom & wit from Ben Hogan
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
22 other quotes from Samuel Richardson
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
20 thoughts from Herbert Hoover
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
4 thoughts from Ben Hogan
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
2 quotes from Jesse Owens
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
60 other wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 other quotes from Mike Royko
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
3 wisdom & wit from Tom Landry
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
98 more sayings from Mark Twain
I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.
14 thoughts from Hedy Lamarr
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
3 other quotes from Jim Bishop
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
19 more quotes from Woodrow Wilson
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
3 thoughts from Ty Cobb
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
2 views from Branch Rickey
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
40 thoughts from William James
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 quotes from Pierre de Coubertin
All sports for all people.
3 wisdom & wit from Pierre de Coubertin
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
5 quotes from Joe E. Lewis
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 other quotes from William Arthur Ward
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
32 thoughts from Michel de Montaigne
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
33 more sayings from Erma Bombeck
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
3 wisdom & wit from Ben Hecht
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
4 more wisdom & wit from Jack Benny
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 more wisdom & wit from Howard Cosell
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
50 views from Robert Frost
Sports is the toy department of human life.
3 more sayings from Howard Cosell
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
6 thoughts from Earl Warren
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 other thoughts from Knute Rockne
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
2 other quotes from Rogers Hornsby
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 sayings from Jimmy Cannon
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
2 other wisdom & wit from A. Bartlett Giamatti
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
2 more sayings from Robert Wilson Lynd
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
21 other views from William Wordsworth
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
2 more thoughts from Rogers Hornsby
We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
5 other sayings from Alastair Campbell
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
30 sayings from Walt Whitman
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
52 views from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
16 wisdom & wit from Vince Lombardi
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
16 more wisdom & wit from Vince Lombardi
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
16 quotes from Vince Lombardi
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
3 other quotes from Dean Martin
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
35 quotes from Ernest Hemingway
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
9 other quotes from Satchel Paige
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
10 more sayings from Arthur Ashe
Most ball games are lost, not won.
12 other sayings from Casey Stengel
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
115 views from George Bernard Shaw
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
117 more quotes from Henry David Thoreau