sports
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
19 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 views 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 views from Branch Rickey
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
40 views 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 must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 wisdom & wit from Pierre de Coubertin
All sports for all people.
3 other quotes from Pierre de Coubertin
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 thoughts from William Arthur Ward
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
32 sayings 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
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
33 quotes from Erma Bombeck
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
3 other thoughts from Ben Hecht
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 thoughts from Howard Cosell
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 more quotes 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 quotes from Earl Warren
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
50 other thoughts from Robert Frost
Sports is the toy department of human life.
3 other thoughts from Howard Cosell
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
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 thoughts from Jimmy Cannon
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 views from A. Bartlett Giamatti
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
2 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 views from Rogers Hornsby
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
21 quotes from William Wordsworth
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
52 more sayings from Gilbert K. Chesterton
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
30 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 wisdom & wit from Vince Lombardi
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
16 thoughts from Vince Lombardi
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
16 views from Vince Lombardi
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
3 quotes from Dean Martin
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
Most ball games are lost, not won.
12 more sayings from Casey Stengel
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
9 thoughts from Satchel Paige
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
115 more quotes 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 more views from Ernest Hemingway
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 wisdom & wit 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 sayings from Herbert Hoover
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
4 sayings from Ben Hogan
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
60 views from H. L. Mencken
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
2 more wisdom & wit from Jesse Owens
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
3 more sayings from Tom Landry
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 quotes from Mike Royko
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
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
3 other quotes from Jim Bishop
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
98 more sayings from Mark Twain
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
98 thoughts from Mark Twain