sports
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 views from Henry David Thoreau
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
35 other quotes from Ernest Hemingway
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
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
10 more quotes from Arthur Ashe
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
4 views 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 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 more quotes from Herbert Hoover
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
2 sayings from Jesse Owens
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
60 wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 more sayings from Mike Royko
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
3 more quotes from Tom Landry
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
98 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 quotes 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 quotes 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 more 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 quotes from Branch Rickey
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
19 sayings from Woodrow Wilson
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
5 wisdom & wit from Joe E. Lewis
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
40 wisdom & wit from William James
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 quotes from Pierre de Coubertin
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 thoughts from William Arthur Ward
All sports for all people.
3 wisdom & wit from Pierre de Coubertin
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
32 other 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 more thoughts from Jack Benny
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
3 quotes 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
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 quotes from Knute Rockne
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 more thoughts from Howard Cosell
Sports is the toy department of human life.
3 other sayings from Howard Cosell
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
50 quotes 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 sayings from Earl Warren
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 views 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 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 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 thoughts from Rogers Hornsby
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
21 quotes from William Wordsworth
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
30 other sayings from Walt Whitman
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
52 thoughts 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 quotes from Alastair Campbell
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
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 sayings from Vince Lombardi
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
16 more quotes from Vince Lombardi