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

sports

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set. 2 thoughts 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 views 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 quotes from A. Bartlett Giamatti

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. 2 sayings 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 other quotes from Rogers Hornsby

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

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

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

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. 16 wisdom & wit 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 other quotes from Vince Lombardi

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.' 10 sayings from Arthur Ashe

The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter. 27 wisdom & wit 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 sayings from Ernest Hemingway

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. 27 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes 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 more quotes from Satchel Paige

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons. 22 other wisdom & wit from Samuel Richardson

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight. 4 views from Ben Hogan

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you? 4 quotes 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 quotes from Jesse Owens

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

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

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

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

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

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 quotes from Ty Cobb

All sports for all people. 3 views from Pierre de Coubertin

Adversity causes some men to break others to break records. 14 thoughts from William Arthur Ward

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 quotes from Pierre de Coubertin

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. 40 views 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 sayings from Michel de Montaigne

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

Sports is human life in microcosm. 3 more wisdom & wit from Howard Cosell

Sports is the toy department of human life. 3 other wisdom & wit from Howard Cosell

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. 5 more 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 more quotes from Earl Warren

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