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Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
3 more sayings from Jim Bishop
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
98 other wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
98 sayings 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
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
3 other wisdom & wit from Ty Cobb
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
19 other thoughts from Woodrow Wilson
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
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
5 quotes from Joe E. Lewis
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
40 quotes from William James
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 wisdom & wit from Pierre de Coubertin
All sports for all people.
3 wisdom & wit from Pierre de Coubertin
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 other thoughts from William Arthur Ward
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 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 sayings from Jack Benny
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
3 sayings from Ben Hecht
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
50 other 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 other wisdom & wit from Earl Warren
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 sayings from Knute Rockne
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 quotes from Howard Cosell
Sports is the toy department of human life.
3 quotes from Howard Cosell
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 thoughts 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
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 thoughts from Rogers Hornsby
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 more sayings from Jimmy Cannon
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
2 quotes from Rogers Hornsby
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
21 other quotes from William Wordsworth
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
52 views from Gilbert K. Chesterton
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
30 more 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 quotes from Alastair Campbell
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
16 views from Vince Lombardi
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
16 more wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Vince Lombardi
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
117 other sayings from Henry David Thoreau
Most ball games are lost, not won.
12 other sayings from Casey Stengel
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
9 more thoughts from Satchel Paige
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
115 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 thoughts from Ernest Hemingway
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
10 quotes from Arthur Ashe
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
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 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 sayings from Samuel Richardson
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
3 views from Tom Landry
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
60 more quotes from H. L. Mencken
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
2 views from Jesse Owens
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 quotes from Mike Royko