sports
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
16 more sayings 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 quotes from Dean Martin
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
16 wisdom & wit from Vince Lombardi
Most ball games are lost, not won.
12 more quotes from Casey Stengel
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 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
9 views 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 thoughts from Ernest Hemingway
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
10 quotes from Arthur Ashe
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
4 other views from Ben Hogan
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
4 sayings from Ben Hogan
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
22 more 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 views from Herbert Hoover
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 wisdom & wit from Mike Royko
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
2 quotes from Jesse Owens
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
3 thoughts from Tom Landry
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
60 quotes from H. L. Mencken
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
98 other 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 other wisdom & wit 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 other quotes 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 wisdom & wit 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
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
5 more quotes from Joe E. Lewis
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 quotes from William Arthur Ward
All sports for all people.
3 more quotes from Pierre de Coubertin
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 more thoughts from Pierre de Coubertin
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
3 wisdom & wit from Ben Hecht
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
33 more wisdom & wit 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 quotes 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
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 other quotes from Howard Cosell
Sports is the toy department of human life.
3 more wisdom & wit from Howard Cosell
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
50 thoughts from Robert Frost
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 more sayings from Knute Rockne
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
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 more views 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 other quotes from A. Bartlett Giamatti
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
2 more wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Rogers Hornsby
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
21 other quotes from William Wordsworth
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 quotes from Jimmy Cannon
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 other views from Gilbert K. Chesterton
We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
5 more quotes from Alastair Campbell