A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
2 other quotes from Jesse Owens
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
60 other thoughts from H. L. Mencken
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 other quotes from Mike Royko
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
3 more quotes from Tom Landry
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
98 thoughts 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 sayings 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
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
98 views from Mark Twain
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
19 other 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 other wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from Branch Rickey
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 views from Pierre de Coubertin
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
14 views from William Arthur Ward
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 other quotes from Joe E. Lewis
All sports for all people.
3 sayings from Pierre de Coubertin
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
4 thoughts from Jack Benny
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
3 other quotes from Ben Hecht
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 quotes from Michel de Montaigne
Sports is the toy department of human life.
3 quotes from Howard Cosell
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
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 more quotes from Knute Rockne
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 quotes from Howard Cosell
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
50 sayings from Robert Frost
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 more sayings 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 more sayings from A. Bartlett Giamatti
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
2 more quotes 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 sayings from Rogers Hornsby
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
21 other views from William Wordsworth
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
30 other views 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 views from Alastair Campbell
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
16 views from Vince Lombardi
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
16 more wisdom & wit from Vince Lombardi
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
16 quotes from Vince Lombardi
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
3 quotes from Dean Martin
Most ball games are lost, not won.
12 quotes from Casey Stengel
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
27 more sayings from Dave Barry
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
9 more views from Satchel Paige
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
35 quotes from Ernest Hemingway
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
27 other quotes from Dave Barry
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'
10 quotes from Arthur Ashe
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
117 more views from Henry David Thoreau
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
115 other sayings from George Bernard Shaw
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 wisdom & wit from Herbert Hoover
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
4 views from Ben Hogan
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
22 other views from Samuel Richardson