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Kutipan (Quote) - Sports (2)

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
Billy Graham

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood Broun

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
Eric Liddell

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.
Phil Jackson

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Jim Bouton

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
Jack Benny

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
Jack Lemmon

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
Yogi Berra

Fans don't boo nobodies.
Reggie Jackson

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
Red Auerbach

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

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
Mike Singletary

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
Bobby Unser

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck

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

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
James Patrick Murray

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Ernest Hemingway

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Dave Barry

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
Gerald R. Ford

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
Michael Phelps

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
Charles Barkley

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Life is about timing.
Carl Lewis

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Woodrow Wilson

Wrestling is ballet with violence.
Jesse Ventura

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
Pete Rose

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
Bill Veeck

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
Billie Jean King

Sports are a microcosm of society.
Billie Jean King

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

Most ball games are lost, not won.
Casey Stengel

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
John Updike

All sports for all people.
Pierre de Coubertin

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.
Phil Jackson

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?
Al Boliska

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
Knute Rockne

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
Joyce Carol Oates

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