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 wisdom & wit 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
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
4 more sayings from Jack Benny
Sports is the toy department of human life.
3 quotes from Howard Cosell
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 quotes from Howard Cosell
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 quotes from Knute Rockne
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
50 quotes 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 quotes from Earl Warren
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 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 wisdom & wit 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 views 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 quotes 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 thoughts from Alastair Campbell
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
52 other 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 other views from Vince Lombardi
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
16 quotes from Vince Lombardi
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
16 wisdom & wit from Vince Lombardi
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
3 quotes from Dean Martin
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
117 other wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
10 more wisdom & wit from Arthur Ashe
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
27 quotes from Dave Barry
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
35 thoughts from Ernest Hemingway
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
27 more views from Dave Barry
Most ball games are lost, not won.
12 quotes from Casey Stengel
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 sayings 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
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
4 more wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Herbert Hoover
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
4 more quotes from Ben Hogan
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 quotes from Mike Royko
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
3 other 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
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
98 other quotes from Mark Twain
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
98 thoughts from Mark Twain
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
3 other 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 thoughts from Ty Cobb
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 wisdom & wit from Branch Rickey
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 more quotes from William Arthur Ward
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
5 other quotes from Joe E. Lewis
All sports for all people.
3 sayings from Pierre de Coubertin
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 other views from Pierre de Coubertin
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
40 more quotes from William James