sports
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 other 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 quotes 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 thoughts 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 quotes from Rogers Hornsby
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
21 more wisdom & wit 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 sayings from Alastair Campbell
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
30 views from Walt Whitman
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
52 other sayings from Gilbert K. Chesterton
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 other sayings from Vince Lombardi
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
3 other quotes from Dean Martin
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
16 quotes from Vince Lombardi
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
10 quotes from Arthur Ashe
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
27 thoughts 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 wisdom & wit from Ernest Hemingway
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
27 other sayings from Dave Barry
Most ball games are lost, not won.
12 sayings from Casey Stengel
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
117 other thoughts from Henry David Thoreau
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
115 wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
9 quotes from Satchel Paige
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
22 quotes from Samuel Richardson
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
4 quotes from Ben Hogan
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
4 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 thoughts from Herbert Hoover
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
2 other quotes from Jesse Owens
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 views from Mike Royko
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
3 more quotes from Tom Landry
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
60 more quotes from H. L. Mencken
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 quotes from Mark Twain
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
3 quotes 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 sayings from Hedy Lamarr
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
2 thoughts from Branch Rickey
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 quotes 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 sayings from William Arthur Ward
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
5 quotes from Joe E. Lewis
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 sayings from Pierre de Coubertin
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
40 thoughts from William James
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 views from Michel de Montaigne
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
3 other sayings from Ben Hecht
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
33 other quotes from Erma Bombeck
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
4 quotes from Jack Benny
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 more quotes from Howard Cosell
Sports is the toy department of human life.
3 more sayings from Howard Cosell
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 quotes 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 thoughts from Earl Warren
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
50 quotes from Robert Frost