sports
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
2 more quotes from Jesse Owens
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
60 thoughts from H. L. Mencken
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 more sayings from Mike Royko
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
3 quotes from Tom Landry
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
98 more 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 more thoughts from Hedy Lamarr
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
3 wisdom & wit from Jim Bishop
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
98 more quotes from Mark Twain
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 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 sayings from Branch Rickey
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 wisdom & wit from Pierre de Coubertin
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 other quotes from William Arthur Ward
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
40 more quotes from William James
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
5 sayings from Joe E. Lewis
All sports for all people.
3 quotes from Pierre de Coubertin
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
4 wisdom & wit 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
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
33 other sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Michel de Montaigne
Sports is the toy department of human life.
3 quotes from Howard Cosell
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
6 more wisdom & wit from Earl Warren
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 wisdom & wit from Knute Rockne
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 sayings from Howard Cosell
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
50 other quotes from Robert Frost
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 more quotes 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 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 more quotes from A. Bartlett Giamatti
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
2 sayings 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 other thoughts from William Wordsworth
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 other views from Alastair Campbell
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
16 views from Vince Lombardi
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
16 other wisdom & wit from Vince Lombardi
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
3 other quotes 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 sayings from Casey Stengel
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
9 quotes 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 thoughts from Ernest Hemingway
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
10 quotes from Arthur Ashe
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
117 views from Henry David Thoreau
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
115 other sayings from George Bernard Shaw
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
4 sayings 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 views from Herbert Hoover
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
4 sayings from Ben Hogan
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
22 other sayings from Samuel Richardson