sports
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 wisdom & wit from William Arthur Ward
All sports for all people.
3 more wisdom & wit from Pierre de Coubertin
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 quotes from Pierre de Coubertin
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 more wisdom & wit from William James
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
3 other wisdom & wit 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
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
4 other 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
Sports is the toy department of human life.
3 thoughts 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 quotes from Earl Warren
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
50 quotes from Robert Frost
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 quotes from Knute Rockne
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 more views from Howard Cosell
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
2 views from Robert Wilson Lynd
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 quotes from A. Bartlett Giamatti
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 sayings from Jimmy Cannon
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
21 quotes from William Wordsworth
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
2 views from Rogers Hornsby
We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
5 more quotes from Alastair Campbell
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 sayings from Walt Whitman
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
16 other sayings from Vince Lombardi
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
16 thoughts from Vince Lombardi
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
3 views from Dean Martin
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
16 more thoughts from Vince Lombardi
Most ball games are lost, not won.
12 quotes from Casey Stengel
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
10 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 other thoughts from Ernest Hemingway
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
9 quotes from Satchel Paige
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
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 quotes from Ben Hogan
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
4 quotes from Ben Hogan
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
22 views from Samuel Richardson
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
3 quotes from Tom Landry
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
2 other views from Jesse Owens
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 other quotes from Mike Royko
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
60 other quotes from H. L. Mencken
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
98 more views from Mark Twain
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
98 more sayings from Mark Twain
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
3 more wisdom & wit from Jim Bishop
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 more 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 more sayings from Branch Rickey
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
19 quotes from Woodrow Wilson