sports
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 more sayings 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 more views from A. Bartlett Giamatti
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
2 other quotes 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 quotes from Rogers Hornsby
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
21 quotes from William Wordsworth
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 see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
30 quotes from Walt Whitman
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
16 other views from Vince Lombardi
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
16 other sayings from Vince Lombardi
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
3 more wisdom & wit from Dean Martin
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
16 thoughts from Vince Lombardi
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
10 more thoughts from Arthur Ashe
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
35 wisdom & wit from Ernest Hemingway
Most ball games are lost, not won.
12 quotes from Casey Stengel
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
115 sayings from George Bernard Shaw
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
9 other quotes from Satchel Paige
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
22 quotes from Samuel Richardson
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
4 other wisdom & wit from Ben Hogan
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
4 more 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 wisdom & wit from Herbert Hoover
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
2 sayings from Jesse Owens
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 quotes from Mike Royko
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
60 quotes from H. L. Mencken
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
3 quotes from Tom Landry
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
98 more quotes from Mark Twain
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
3 other wisdom & wit from Jim Bishop
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 views from Hedy Lamarr
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
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
19 sayings from Woodrow Wilson
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
2 quotes from Branch Rickey
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
40 quotes from William James
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 more thoughts from Pierre de Coubertin
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
5 more wisdom & wit from Joe E. Lewis
All sports for all people.
3 quotes from Pierre de Coubertin
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 other views from William Arthur Ward
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
3 other quotes from Ben Hecht
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
33 other quotes from Erma Bombeck
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
4 thoughts from Jack Benny
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
50 other quotes from Robert Frost
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 wisdom & wit from Knute Rockne
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 more views from Howard Cosell
Sports is the toy department of human life.
3 more thoughts 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