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Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
3 views from Jim Bishop
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
98 wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
98 more quotes 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 more views 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 quotes 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 quotes from Branch Rickey
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
5 views from Joe E. Lewis
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
40 sayings from William James
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 wisdom & wit from Pierre de Coubertin
All sports for all people.
3 sayings from Pierre de Coubertin
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 more sayings from William Arthur Ward
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
33 more quotes 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 more 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 views from Jack Benny
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
3 thoughts from Ben Hecht
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 wisdom & wit 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 other quotes from Howard Cosell
Sports is the toy department of human life.
3 quotes 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 views from A. Bartlett Giamatti
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
2 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Rogers Hornsby
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 other views 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 other thoughts from William Wordsworth
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
52 thoughts from Gilbert K. Chesterton
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
30 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Alastair Campbell
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
16 quotes from Vince Lombardi
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
16 thoughts 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 views 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 wisdom & wit from Casey Stengel
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
9 views from Satchel Paige
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
115 sayings 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 sayings from Ernest Hemingway
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
10 more sayings from Arthur Ashe
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
20 other sayings from Herbert Hoover
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
4 other quotes from Ben Hogan
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
4 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 wisdom & wit from Samuel Richardson
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
3 other views from Tom Landry
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
60 sayings from H. L. Mencken
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
2 views from Jesse Owens
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 quotes from Mike Royko