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Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
3 other quotes from Jim Bishop
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
98 other 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
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
3 quotes from Ty Cobb
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
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
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 other quotes from William James
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 quotes from Pierre de Coubertin
All sports for all people.
3 quotes from Pierre de Coubertin
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 more quotes from William Arthur Ward
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
33 views 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 quotes 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 quotes from Jack Benny
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
3 more quotes from Ben Hecht
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 quotes from Earl Warren
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 thoughts from Knute Rockne
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 more thoughts from Howard Cosell
Sports is the toy department of human life.
3 other views 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 more 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 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 other quotes from Rogers Hornsby
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 views 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 thoughts from William Wordsworth
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
52 more quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
30 sayings 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 wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Vince Lombardi
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
117 views from Henry David Thoreau
Most ball games are lost, not won.
12 quotes from Casey Stengel
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
9 quotes from Satchel Paige
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 wisdom & wit from Ernest Hemingway
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
10 thoughts 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 sayings 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 quotes from Samuel Richardson
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
3 other quotes from Tom Landry
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
60 quotes from H. L. Mencken
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
2 quotes from Jesse Owens
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 other quotes from Mike Royko