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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘sports’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“If you drink don’t drive. Don’t even putt.” -Dean Martin
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“Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.” -Jack Benny
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“If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.” -Bob Hope
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“Golf is a game in which you yell ‘fore,’ shoot six, and write down five.” -Paul Harvey
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“Bobby Knight told me this: ‘There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.’ In other words a good offense wins.” -Dan Quayle
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“I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.” -Earl Warren
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“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” -Bobby Unser
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“Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.” -William Wordsworth
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“If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.” -Erma Bombeck
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“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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“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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“I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.” -Walt Whitman
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“The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.” -Billy Graham
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“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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“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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“I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.” -Gordie Howe
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“Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.” -Tom Landry
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“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.” -Heywood Broun
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“You win some, lose some, and wreck some.” -Dale Earnhardt
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“You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.” -Bobby Knight
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“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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“Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.” -Satchel Paige
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“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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“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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“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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“I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.” -Robert Frost
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“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.” -Rodney Dangerfield
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“Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.” -William Arthur Ward
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“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.” -William James
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“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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“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” -Hunter S. Thompson
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“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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“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.” -Muhammad Ali
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