sports
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
30 thoughts from Walt Whitman
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
52 more views 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 more quotes from Alastair Campbell
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
16 other quotes from Vince Lombardi
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
16 quotes from Vince Lombardi
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
3 other views 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 wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau
Most ball games are lost, not won.
12 quotes from Casey Stengel
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
115 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 quotes from Ernest Hemingway
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
10 quotes from Arthur Ashe
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
9 more views from Satchel Paige
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
22 quotes from Samuel Richardson
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
4 other sayings from Ben Hogan
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
4 other views 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 quotes from Herbert Hoover
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 quotes from Mike Royko
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
60 wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
2 sayings from Jesse Owens
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
3 other wisdom & wit from Tom Landry
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
98 other quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Hedy Lamarr
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
98 more sayings from Mark Twain
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
19 views 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 other thoughts from Branch Rickey
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
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
40 thoughts from William James
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 views from Pierre de Coubertin
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 quotes from William Arthur Ward
All sports for all people.
3 quotes from Pierre de Coubertin
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
5 more thoughts from Joe E. Lewis
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
33 sayings from Erma Bombeck
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
3 more wisdom & wit from Ben Hecht
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
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
32 other wisdom & wit from Michel de Montaigne
Sports is the toy department of human life.
3 more thoughts from Howard Cosell
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
50 more sayings from Robert Frost
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 other quotes from Howard Cosell
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 wisdom & wit from Knute Rockne
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
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 thoughts 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 quotes from A. Bartlett Giamatti
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
2 thoughts 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 quotes from Rogers Hornsby
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
21 views from William Wordsworth
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 other quotes from Jimmy Cannon