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Sport & Game Quotes
I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.
~ Jesse Owens
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
~ Mickey Mantle, 1970
"Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species." - Melvin Maddocks, "Baseball-The Difference between Night and Day"
-- Christian Science Monitor 3 Apr 85
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
~ Will Rogers
Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.
~ Reggie Jackson
"I love boxing. Where else do two grown men prance around in satin underwear, fighting over a belt? ... The one who wins gets a purse. They do it in gloves. It's the accessory connection I love."
- John McGovern
There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor.
~ Lord Mancroft, A Chinaman in the Bath, 1974
The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.
-- Howard Cosell
"The Bush administration says they want to declare all golf course water hazards as protected wetlands. It's part of their plan to save restricted country clubs."
-- David Letterman
The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
-- Baron de Coubertin
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
~ Ben Hogan
Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.
~ Rita Rudner
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts - Charlemagne; and Diamonds
- Julius Caesar
The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez
"It's time to stop tiptoeing around the pool and jump into the deep end, head first. It's time to think big, want more and achieve it all!"
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"What is winning at life? Simple... it's winning the heart race... because your heart will always determine what kind of finish you will have..."
-- Doug Firebaugh
A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o'clock and make it go toward 12 o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone.
~Chi Chi Rodriguez
"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an
even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for
the purpose."
- Winston Churchill
...of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy.
~ William Sherwood Fox, 1954
I played as much golf as I could in North Dakota, but summer up there is pretty short. It usually falls on Tuesday.
~ Mike Morley
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
-- Lou Holtz
In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.
~ Elliot Chaze
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
~ Emil Zatopek
I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.
~ Brent Musburger
My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it.
~ Koos Brandt
Let us be mindful never to shame a boy but to correct him in an uplifting and loving way.
-- Joe Erhmann, Football coach
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
~ Muhammad Ali
A gold medal is a nice thing - but if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it.
~ From Cool Runnings
We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it.
~ John F. Kennedy, 1961
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
~ Sam Snead
Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.
~ Robin Williams, 1986
You know you're a cheerleader when you have to yell, kick, and scream to get what you want.
~ Author Unknown
Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
~ Frederick Wilcox
There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.
~Tallulah Bankhead
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
- Plato
"Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too."
-- Greg, age 8
"Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport."
-- Duffy Daugherty
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
~ Erma Bombeck
I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.
~ Erma Bombeck
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
~ Rogers Hornsby
"Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle."
-- Unknown
It isn’t hard to be good from time to time. What’s tough is being good every day.
~- Willie Mays
There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.
~ Lee Trevino
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
~ Italian Proverb
I know I am getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators.
~ Gerald Ford
"If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter!"
-- Eve Arden (Principal McGee) in Grease
Golf is the most fun you can have without taking your clothes off.
~ Chi Chi Rodriguez
"I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play to win."
-- Tom Hopkins
"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it."
-- Knute Rockne
Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake. ~ -- Sylvester Stallone, 1990
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
~ Dave Barry
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
~ Mohammed Ali
"The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke."
-- W.J. Cameron
"Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat."
-- Byron Nelson
"The man who has no imagination has no wings."
-- Muhammad Ali
"Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is."
-- Catfish Hunter
Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.
~ James E. Starrs
You can see a lot by just looking.
~Yogi Berra
"It is always your next move."
-- Napoleon Hill
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
- Muhammad Ali
Kresimir Cosic is only non-American player in NBA Hall of Fame.
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