“These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.”
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“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”
“You win some, lose some, and wreck some.”
“You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.”
“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
“Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.”
“Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.”
“Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.”
“A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.”
“Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.”
“Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.”
“If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.”
“Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.”
“Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.”
“Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.”
“I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.”
“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.”
“Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.”
“I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.”
“I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.”
“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.”
“Fans don't boo nobodies.”
“It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.”
“If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.”