Quotes of Sport - somelinesforyou

“ I think both teams are evenly matched, ... Both teams played real well. This is a typical game between the two schools. ”

- James Monroe

“ If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts… ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I play in the low eighties. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. ”

- Joe E. Lewis

“ Either you run the day, or the day runs you. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story. ”

- Casey Stengel

“ It's a conclusion of a marvelous career of an honorable man. Everything good about college basketball is in Dick Bennett. ”

- John Jay

“ I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. ”

- Tiger Woods

“ I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. ”

- Chief Justice Earl Warren

“ Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. ”

- Paul Rodriguez

“ My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win… channel your energy. Focus. ”

- Carl Lewis

“ Sports do not build character. They reveal it. ”

- John Wooden

“ The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Don't play for safety — it's the most dangerous thing in the world. ”

- Sir Hugh Walpole

“ Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies. ”

- Anna Kournikova

“ The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top. ”

- Pete Dye

“ I'm a golfer - not an athlete. ”

- Lee Westwood

“ When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ I can't think of anyone who knew how to play comedy better than Ronnie Barker and I count myself enormously fortunate to have known and worked with him. ”

- Michael Palin

“ There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by $13 million of taxpayers money. That's a pretty sickly witches' brew for a private convention where corporations have poured $100 million into it… ”

- Ralph Nader

“ Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. ”

- Duffy Daugherty

“ Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. ”

- Joe Theismann

“ Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day. ”

- Peter Ueberroth

“ If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. ”

- Bob Hope

“ Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal. ”

- George Will

“ I play with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. ”

- Ben Hogan

“ Business is a game, the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it. ”

- Thomas J. Watson

“ The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at. ”

- Horace
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