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Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
19 quotes 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 more sayings from Ty Cobb
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 sayings from Branch Rickey
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
40 wisdom & wit from William James
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
5 views from Joe E. Lewis
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 thoughts from Pierre de Coubertin
All sports for all people.
3 thoughts from Pierre de Coubertin
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 more quotes from William Arthur Ward
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
32 wisdom & wit 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 other wisdom & wit from Jack Benny
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
33 other quotes from Erma Bombeck
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
3 thoughts from Ben Hecht
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 views from Howard Cosell
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 sayings from Knute Rockne
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
6 other quotes from Earl Warren
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
50 quotes from Robert Frost
Sports is the toy department of human life.
3 quotes from Howard Cosell
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 sayings from Rogers Hornsby
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 quotes from Jimmy Cannon
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 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 more sayings from Rogers Hornsby
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
21 more thoughts from William Wordsworth
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
52 other views 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 sayings from Alastair Campbell
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 views from Vince Lombardi
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
16 quotes from Vince Lombardi
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
3 other views from Dean Martin
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
10 wisdom & wit from Arthur Ashe
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
117 more quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Most ball games are lost, not won.
12 more quotes from Casey Stengel
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
9 other quotes from Satchel Paige
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
115 more thoughts 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 other sayings from Ernest Hemingway
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 sayings 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 other quotes 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
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
60 thoughts from H. L. Mencken
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
2 views from Jesse Owens
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
3 wisdom & wit from Tom Landry
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 wisdom & wit from Mike Royko
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
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
3 quotes from Jim Bishop
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 views from Mark Twain