sports
Sports is the toy department of human life.
3 views from Howard Cosell
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 more quotes from Howard Cosell
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 more quotes from Knute Rockne
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 more thoughts from Earl Warren
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 more quotes 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 other 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 more quotes from A. Bartlett Giamatti
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
2 wisdom & wit 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 views from Rogers Hornsby
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
21 thoughts 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 views from Alastair Campbell
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
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
16 more 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 quotes from Dean Martin
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
16 quotes from Vince Lombardi
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
9 other wisdom & wit from Satchel Paige
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 quotes from Ernest Hemingway
Most ball games are lost, not won.
12 quotes from Casey Stengel
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
117 more thoughts from Henry David Thoreau
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
115 wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
22 other thoughts from Samuel Richardson
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
4 other 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
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
4 quotes from Ben Hogan
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 more quotes from Mike Royko
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
3 thoughts 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 quotes from Jesse Owens
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 sayings from Hedy Lamarr
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
98 views from Mark Twain
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
98 more quotes from Mark Twain
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
3 other wisdom & wit from Jim Bishop
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 wisdom & wit from Branch Rickey
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
19 more wisdom & wit from Woodrow Wilson
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
3 wisdom & wit from Ty Cobb
All sports for all people.
3 wisdom & wit from Pierre de Coubertin
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 quotes from William Arthur Ward
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 wisdom & wit from Pierre de Coubertin
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
40 quotes from William James
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
5 wisdom & wit from Joe E. Lewis
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 other quotes from Michel de Montaigne
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
33 quotes from Erma Bombeck
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
3 more quotes from Ben Hecht