“Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?”
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“If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.”
“There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.”
“He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.”
“He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.”
“You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.”
“The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.”
“I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.”
“Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?”
“Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.”
“You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.”
“Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.”
“The integrity of the game is everything.”
“It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.”
“Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.”
“My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.”
“There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.”
“Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.”
“Nobody roots for Goliath.”
“I'll let the racket do the talking.”
“When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.”
“You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.”
“One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.”
“Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.”