“Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.”
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“Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.”
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“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
“The game is won one play at a time.”
“Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.”
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.”
“You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.”
“Golf is a good walk spoiled.”
“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.”
“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.”
“I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.”
“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.”
“Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.”
“I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.”
“I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.”
“The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.”
“Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.”
“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
“And let that be a lesson to you all. Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis 17 times in a row.”
“It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.”
“The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.”
“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.”
“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
“All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.”