Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
3 other wisdom & wit from Jim Bishop
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
98 sayings from Mark Twain
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
98 wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
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 wisdom & wit from Ty Cobb
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
19 quotes 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 views from Branch Rickey
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
5 other quotes from Joe E. Lewis
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
40 other quotes from William James
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 views from Pierre de Coubertin
All sports for all people.
3 quotes from Pierre de Coubertin
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 thoughts from William Arthur Ward
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
33 other sayings from Erma Bombeck
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
32 sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Jack Benny
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
3 more sayings from Ben Hecht
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
50 more sayings 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 views from Earl Warren
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 quotes from Knute Rockne
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 quotes from Howard Cosell
Sports is the toy department of human life.
3 thoughts from Howard Cosell
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 thoughts 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
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 quotes from Rogers Hornsby
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 thoughts from Jimmy Cannon
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 quotes from William Wordsworth
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 other quotes from Walt Whitman
We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
5 more sayings from Alastair Campbell
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 other views from Vince Lombardi
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
16 other quotes from Vince Lombardi
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
3 thoughts from Dean Martin
Most ball games are lost, not won.
12 quotes from Casey Stengel
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
10 thoughts from Arthur Ashe
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
27 other 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 other views from Ernest Hemingway
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
115 other wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
27 wisdom & wit from Dave Barry
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
9 quotes from Satchel Paige
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
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
4 other sayings from Ben Hogan
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
4 more wisdom & wit from Ben Hogan
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
22 quotes 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
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
60 more quotes 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 quotes from Tom Landry
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 other quotes from Mike Royko