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Ambrose Bierce on sports
Author: Ambrose Bierce“Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.” -Ambrose Bierce
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Ted Williams on sports
Author: Ted Williams“Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.” -Ted Williams
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Billy Graham on sports
Author: Billy Graham“The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.” -Billy Graham
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Walt Whitman on sports
Author: Walt Whitman“I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.” -Walt Whitman
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Blaise Pascal on sports
Author: Blaise Pascal“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.” -Blaise Pascal
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Ernest Hemingway on sports
Author: Ernest Hemingway“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.” -Ernest Hemingway
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Erma Bombeck on sports
Author: Erma Bombeck“If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.” -Erma Bombeck
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Yogi Berra on sports
Author: Yogi Berra“You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.” -Yogi Berra
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Will Rogers on sports
Author: Will Rogers“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
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William James on sports
Author: William James“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.” -William James
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William Arthur Ward on sports
Author: William Arthur Ward“Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.” -William Arthur Ward
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Rodney Dangerfield on sports
Author: Rodney Dangerfield“I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.” -Rodney Dangerfield
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George Bernard Shaw on sports
Author: George Bernard Shaw“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.” -George Bernard Shaw
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Robert Frost on sports
Author: Robert Frost“I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.” -Robert Frost
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George Orwell on sports
Author: George Orwell“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.” -George Orwell
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Mike Tyson on sports
Author: Mike Tyson“I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.” -Mike Tyson
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Dan Gable on sports
Author: Dan Gable“Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.” -Dan Gable
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Satchel Paige on sports
Author: Satchel Paige“Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.” -Satchel Paige
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Michael Jordan on sports
Author: Michael Jordan“As athletes, we’re used to reacting quickly. Here, it’s ‘come, stop, come, stop.’ There’s a lot of downtime. That’s the toughest part of the day.” -Michael Jordan
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Muhammad Ali on sports
Author: Muhammad Ali“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.” -Muhammad Ali
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Henry David Thoreau on sports
Author: Henry David Thoreau“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” -Henry David Thoreau
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Hunter S. Thompson on sports
Author: Hunter S. Thompson“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” -Hunter S. Thompson
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Mark Twain on sports
Author: Mark Twain“Golf is a good walk spoiled.” -Mark Twain