sports
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
2 views from Jesse Owens
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
60 quotes from H. L. Mencken
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 thoughts from Mike Royko
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
3 sayings from Tom Landry
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
98 views 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 sayings from Hedy Lamarr
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
3 quotes from Jim Bishop
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
98 wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
19 thoughts 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 more wisdom & wit 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 sayings from Branch Rickey
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 views from Pierre de Coubertin
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 other thoughts from William Arthur Ward
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
40 wisdom & wit from William James
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
5 more views from Joe E. Lewis
All sports for all people.
3 sayings from Pierre de Coubertin
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
4 sayings from Jack Benny
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
3 sayings from Ben Hecht
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
33 views from Erma Bombeck
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
32 more views from Michel de Montaigne
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 more wisdom & wit from Earl Warren
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 thoughts from Knute Rockne
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 more quotes from Howard Cosell
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
50 more sayings from Robert Frost
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 other thoughts from Jimmy Cannon
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 quotes from Rogers Hornsby
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 thoughts from A. Bartlett Giamatti
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
2 thoughts from Robert Wilson Lynd
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
2 other sayings from Rogers Hornsby
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
21 sayings from William Wordsworth
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
30 more quotes from Walt Whitman
We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
5 more views from Alastair Campbell
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
16 more quotes from Vince Lombardi
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
16 quotes from Vince Lombardi
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
3 quotes from Dean Martin
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
16 quotes from Vince Lombardi
Most ball games are lost, not won.
12 other quotes from Casey Stengel
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
9 other wisdom & wit from Satchel Paige
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
35 views from Ernest Hemingway
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
10 quotes from Arthur Ashe
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
4 quotes from Ben Hogan
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
20 quotes from Herbert Hoover
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
4 quotes from Ben Hogan
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
22 thoughts from Samuel Richardson