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Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
3 other views 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 wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit 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 more thoughts 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 quotes from Branch Rickey
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
5 other 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 wisdom & wit from Pierre de Coubertin
All sports for all people.
3 more views from Pierre de Coubertin
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 quotes from William Arthur Ward
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
33 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 quotes 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 more 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 quotes 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 more 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 sayings from A. Bartlett Giamatti
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
2 views 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 quotes from Rogers Hornsby
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 other thoughts 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 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
30 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 thoughts from Alastair Campbell
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 thoughts 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 sayings from Vince Lombardi
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
117 more quotes 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 quotes from Satchel Paige
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
115 other wisdom & wit 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 sayings from Ernest Hemingway
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
10 other 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 more wisdom & wit from Herbert Hoover
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
4 quotes from Ben Hogan
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
4 other sayings from Ben Hogan
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
22 wisdom & wit from Samuel Richardson
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
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
2 sayings from Jesse Owens
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 more views from Mike Royko