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Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
3 more quotes from Jim Bishop
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
98 more quotes from Mark Twain
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
98 quotes 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
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
3 other sayings from Ty Cobb
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
19 quotes 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
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
5 views from Joe E. Lewis
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
40 more views from William James
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 other quotes from Pierre de Coubertin
All sports for all people.
3 thoughts from Pierre de Coubertin
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 other quotes from William Arthur Ward
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
33 thoughts 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 wisdom & wit from Michel de Montaigne
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
4 views from Jack Benny
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
3 other quotes from Ben Hecht
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
50 thoughts from Robert Frost
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
6 more thoughts from Earl Warren
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 more sayings from Knute Rockne
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 other quotes from Howard Cosell
Sports is the toy department of human life.
3 more quotes from Howard Cosell
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 quotes 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
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 thoughts from Rogers Hornsby
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 quotes from Jimmy Cannon
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 more quotes from William Wordsworth
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
30 other 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 sayings from Alastair Campbell
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
16 quotes from Vince Lombardi
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
16 thoughts from Vince Lombardi
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
3 more quotes from Dean Martin
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
16 thoughts from Vince Lombardi
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Most ball games are lost, not won.
12 other views from Casey Stengel
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
9 quotes from Satchel Paige
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
115 more views from George Bernard Shaw
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
35 thoughts from Ernest Hemingway
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
10 wisdom & wit from Arthur Ashe
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
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
4 quotes from Ben Hogan
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
4 more sayings from Ben Hogan
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
22 sayings from Samuel Richardson
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
3 wisdom & wit from Tom Landry
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
60 other views from H. L. Mencken
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
2 quotes from Jesse Owens
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 more quotes from Mike Royko