sports
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 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from Alastair Campbell
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
16 other sayings from Vince Lombardi
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
16 sayings from Vince Lombardi
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
3 other quotes from Dean Martin
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
16 quotes from Vince Lombardi
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
9 other sayings from Satchel Paige
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
27 quotes from Dave Barry
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
115 sayings 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 quotes from Ernest Hemingway
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
10 other wisdom & wit from Arthur Ashe
Most ball games are lost, not won.
12 more wisdom & wit from Casey Stengel
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
27 more quotes from Dave Barry
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
4 more wisdom & wit from Ben Hogan
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
4 quotes from Ben Hogan
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
22 more views 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 quotes from Herbert Hoover
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 other quotes from Tom Landry
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
2 thoughts from Jesse Owens
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 quotes from Mike Royko
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
98 thoughts 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 thoughts from Hedy Lamarr
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
3 more quotes from Jim Bishop
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
98 other quotes from Mark Twain
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
19 thoughts 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 sayings 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 other wisdom & wit from Branch Rickey
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
5 more sayings from Joe E. Lewis
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 more quotes from Pierre de Coubertin
All sports for all people.
3 sayings from Pierre de Coubertin
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 quotes from William Arthur Ward
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
40 other quotes from William James
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 views from Erma Bombeck
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
4 quotes from Jack Benny
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
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 quotes from Knute Rockne
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 quotes from Howard Cosell
Sports is the toy department of human life.
3 wisdom & wit from Howard Cosell
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
50 sayings 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 sayings 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 sayings 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 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 sayings from Rogers Hornsby
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
21 more sayings from William Wordsworth
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 more wisdom & wit from Jimmy Cannon