(2632 quotes found)
“Topping the ball is a problem that usually afflicts only beginning golfers, and it is quickly left behind once a player has learned to master the hook, the slice, the shank, and the airball”
Henry Beard
“Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.”
Winston Churchill
“I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a while that she'd throw me over, but she didn't, because she was in love with me too. She thought I knew a lot beacause I knew different things from her....Well, there I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care. What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do? Gatsby”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.”
John Wooden
“Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.”
Ben Crenshaw
“Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.”
Babe Ruth
“In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.”
Earl Weaver
“If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such”
Dan Castellaneta
“After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.”
Branch Rickey
“In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.”
Honus Wagner
