Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

sports

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set. 2 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 other 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 other wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Rogers Hornsby

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. 21 other sayings 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 more quotes from Alastair Campbell

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. 30 other wisdom & wit from Walt Whitman

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. 52 wisdom & wit from Gilbert K. Chesterton

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 thoughts from Vince Lombardi

If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt. 3 other sayings 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 views 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

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. 27 other quotes from Dave Barry

Most ball games are lost, not won. 12 more quotes from Casey Stengel

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. 117 more sayings from Henry David Thoreau

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. 9 thoughts from Satchel Paige

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons. 22 other 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 other views 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 sayings from Herbert Hoover

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. 2 more quotes from Jesse Owens

When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero. 2 quotes from Mike Royko

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. 3 more thoughts from Tom Landry

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. 60 other sayings from H. L. Mencken

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. 98 wisdom & wit from Mark Twain

Golf is a good walk spoiled. 98 more 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 quotes 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 more thoughts from Branch Rickey

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. 19 more sayings 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 sayings from Ty Cobb

All sports for all people. 3 more sayings 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 more quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Michel de Montaigne

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain. 3 wisdom & wit from Ben Hecht

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. 33 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 other quotes from Jack Benny

Sports is human life in microcosm. 3 quotes from Howard Cosell

Sports is the toy department of human life. 3 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Earl Warren

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down. 50 more sayings from Robert Frost