sports
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 sayings 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 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 thoughts from Rogers Hornsby
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
21 sayings from William Wordsworth
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 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 thoughts from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
16 thoughts from Vince Lombardi
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
16 other wisdom & wit from Vince Lombardi
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
3 sayings from Dean Martin
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
16 more wisdom & wit from Vince Lombardi
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
10 more wisdom & wit 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 sayings from Ernest Hemingway
Most ball games are lost, not won.
12 views from Casey Stengel
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
117 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau
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
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
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
4 sayings from Ben Hogan
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
4 quotes 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
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 quotes from Mike Royko
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
60 quotes from H. L. Mencken
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
3 more thoughts 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 quotes from Mark Twain
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
3 quotes 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
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 sayings 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
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
40 more quotes from William James
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 more thoughts from Joe E. Lewis
All sports for all people.
3 thoughts from Pierre de Coubertin
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 quotes from William Arthur Ward
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
3 sayings from Ben Hecht
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
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
33 more thoughts 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 thoughts from Jack Benny
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
50 other quotes from Robert Frost
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 other sayings from Knute Rockne
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 quotes from Howard Cosell
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 sayings from Earl Warren