sports
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
16 sayings from Vince Lombardi
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
16 other quotes from Vince Lombardi
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
3 thoughts from Dean Martin
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
16 sayings from Vince Lombardi
Most ball games are lost, not won.
12 other views from Casey Stengel
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
117 more wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
115 views from George Bernard Shaw
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
9 more wisdom & wit 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 other quotes from Ernest Hemingway
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
10 more views from Arthur Ashe
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
4 wisdom & wit from Ben Hogan
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
4 views 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 sayings from Herbert Hoover
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 quotes from Mike Royko
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
2 views from Jesse Owens
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 quotes from H. L. Mencken
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 quotes from Hedy Lamarr
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
3 thoughts from Jim Bishop
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
98 sayings from Mark Twain
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
19 other views 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 quotes from Branch Rickey
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
40 wisdom & wit from William James
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
5 other views from Joe E. Lewis
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 wisdom & wit from William Arthur Ward
All sports for all people.
3 quotes from Pierre de Coubertin
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 more quotes from Pierre de Coubertin
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
3 more thoughts from Ben Hecht
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
33 other quotes 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 thoughts 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 wisdom & wit from Jack Benny
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 more quotes from Howard Cosell
Sports is the toy department of human life.
3 quotes from Howard Cosell
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
50 more views from Robert Frost
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 wisdom & wit 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 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 thoughts 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 wisdom & wit from A. Bartlett Giamatti
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
2 more thoughts 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 other thoughts from Rogers Hornsby
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
21 sayings from William Wordsworth
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 views from Jimmy Cannon
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
30 sayings from Walt Whitman
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
52 other quotes 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