sports
Sports is the toy department of human life.
3 quotes from Howard Cosell
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 other views from Howard Cosell
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 views from Knute Rockne
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
50 views 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 quotes from Earl Warren
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 wisdom & wit 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 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 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 more quotes from Rogers Hornsby
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
21 views from William Wordsworth
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
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
52 thoughts from Gilbert K. Chesterton
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
30 more sayings from Walt Whitman
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
16 other wisdom & wit from Vince Lombardi
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 views from Dean Martin
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
16 more wisdom & wit from Vince Lombardi
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
9 quotes from Satchel Paige
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
10 other quotes from Arthur Ashe
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
35 wisdom & wit from Ernest Hemingway
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 other quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
22 more wisdom & wit from Samuel Richardson
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
4 quotes 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 other quotes from Herbert Hoover
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
4 other quotes from Ben Hogan
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 wisdom & wit from Mike Royko
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
3 other sayings from Tom Landry
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
60 sayings from H. L. Mencken
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
2 quotes from Jesse Owens
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 more views from Hedy Lamarr
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 thoughts from Mark Twain
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
3 wisdom & wit from Jim Bishop
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
2 more wisdom & wit from Branch Rickey
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
19 wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Ty Cobb
All sports for all people.
3 sayings from Pierre de Coubertin
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 wisdom & wit from William Arthur Ward
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 quotes from Pierre de Coubertin
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
40 other views from William James
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
5 quotes from Joe E. Lewis
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
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
33 more quotes from Erma Bombeck
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
3 wisdom & wit from Ben Hecht