sports
Most ball games are lost, not won.
12 wisdom & wit from Casey Stengel
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
35 views from Ernest Hemingway
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
115 more views from George Bernard Shaw
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 more quotes from Arthur Ashe
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
4 other views 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
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
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
2 other sayings from Jesse Owens
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
60 other quotes from H. L. Mencken
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 sayings from Mike Royko
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
3 sayings from Tom Landry
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 more thoughts from Mark Twain
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
3 sayings 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 other quotes 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 thoughts 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
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
5 other views from Joe E. Lewis
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
40 more sayings from William James
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 thoughts from Pierre de Coubertin
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 wisdom & wit from William Arthur Ward
All sports for all people.
3 more sayings from Pierre de Coubertin
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
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
4 other wisdom & wit from Jack Benny
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
3 other quotes from Ben Hecht
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
33 more wisdom & wit from Erma Bombeck
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 other wisdom & wit from Knute Rockne
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 other quotes from Howard Cosell
Sports is the toy department of human life.
3 thoughts from Howard Cosell
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
50 wisdom & wit 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 views from Earl Warren
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 other views 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 other quotes from A. Bartlett Giamatti
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
2 more views 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 thoughts from Rogers Hornsby
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
21 other wisdom & wit from William Wordsworth
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
30 quotes from Walt Whitman
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
5 other wisdom & wit from Alastair Campbell
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
16 sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Vince Lombardi
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
16 thoughts from Vince Lombardi