Sports Quotes

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

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.

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.

Sports are a microcosm of society.