Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
19 more 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 thoughts 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 quotes from Branch Rickey
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
40 more sayings from William James
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
5 wisdom & wit from Joe E. Lewis
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
3 other sayings from Pierre de Coubertin
All sports for all people.
3 wisdom & wit 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 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 quotes from Jack Benny
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
33 quotes from Erma Bombeck
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
3 other sayings from Ben Hecht
Sports is human life in microcosm.
3 other quotes from Howard Cosell
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
5 other 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 thoughts 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 quotes from Rogers Hornsby
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
2 sayings 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 other quotes from A. Bartlett Giamatti
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
2 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 wisdom & wit from Rogers Hornsby
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
21 other quotes from William Wordsworth
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
52 more views 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 more views 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 views from Vince Lombardi
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
3 quotes from Dean Martin
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
16 thoughts 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 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 quotes from Ernest Hemingway
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
115 more thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
27 other quotes from Dave Barry
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
9 quotes from Satchel Paige
Most ball games are lost, not won.
12 other quotes from Casey Stengel
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
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
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
4 more 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 thoughts from Samuel Richardson
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
60 more quotes from H. L. Mencken
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
3 thoughts from Tom Landry
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
2 quotes from Jesse Owens
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
2 sayings 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 sayings from Hedy Lamarr
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
3 wisdom & wit from Jim Bishop
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
98 more thoughts from Mark Twain
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
98 other thoughts from Mark Twain