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“Midshipmen and cadets remain stronger and more aggressive than their male counterparts at civilian schools. They eagerly play sports such as rugby, boxing, karate, lacrosse, and football. They drive fast cars, usually sports cars. They play hard. They drink hard. They are physical, often abusive among each other. They are not trying to prove their manhood: they are celebrating their masculinity. They are competitive, often vulgar, and tough, and every citizen who may someday send a friend or relative into war should rejoice, because combat is competitive, vulgar, and tough, and they will be leading men in combat.”
James Webb
“Marta was watching the football game with me when she said, "You know, most of these sports are based on the idea of one group protecting its territory from invasion by another group." "Yeah," I said, trying not to laugh. Girls are funny.”
Jack Handy
“Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course...the space between your ears.”
Bobby Jones
“When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.”
Bill Lee
“Thinking instead of acting is the number-one golf disease.”
Sam Snead
“I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.”
Reggie Jackson
“Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.”
Pierre de Coubertin
“Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.”
Arnold Palmer
“It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.”
“I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.”
Gerald R. Ford
