| A. Bartlett Giamatti |
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. ...
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| Al Boliska |
Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?...
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| Al McGuire |
I don't know why people question the academic training of ...
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| Ambrose Bierce |
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosop...
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| Anna Kournikova |
I have lost this battle but I will win the war....
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| Hank Aaron |
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a s...
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| Hank Aaron |
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home run...
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| Harry Caray |
You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games....
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| Harry Vardon |
Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty....
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| Arnold Palmer |
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I fin...
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| Barry Switzer |
Some people are born on third base and go through life thi...
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| Ben Hogan |
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what...
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| Ben Hogan |
Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singin...
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| Ben Hogan |
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the ro...
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| Ben Hogan |
Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots...
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| Ben Hogan |
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight....
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| Ben Hogan |
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never fr...
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| Ben Hogan |
I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so...
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| Ben Hogan |
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to gr...
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| Ben Hogan |
If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulder...
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| Ben Hogan |
I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees...
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| Bernie Lincicome |
The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Rob...
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| Billie Jean King |
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking p...
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| Billie Jean King |
Champions keep playing until they get it right....
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| Bill Veeck |
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorde...
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| Billy Graham |
The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf...
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| Blaise Pascal |
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without a...
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| Bobby Knight |
You don't play against opponents, you play against the gam...
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| Bobby Unser |
Success is where preparation and opportunity meet....
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| Bob Hope |
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recrea...
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| Bob Lemon |
The two most important things in life are good friends and...
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| Bob Verdi |
The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash re...
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| Bob Verdi |
What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million ...
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| Buddy Marucci |
Tiger is the best athlete that this level of golf has seen...
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| Buddy Marucci |
I couldn't see the ball come off the club for the first 27...
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| Carl Lewis |
Life is about timing....
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| Casey Stengel |
Most ball games are lost, not won....
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| Charles Barkley |
If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketbal...
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| Charles Barkley |
You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there...
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| Charles Barkley |
My family got all over me because they said Bush is only f...
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| Charles Barkley |
These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't mak...
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| Charles Spalding |
There was endless action - not just football, but sailboat...
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| Charlie Lau |
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortu...
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| Chris Evert Lloyd |
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that'...
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| Dale Earnhardt |
You win some, lose some, and wreck some....
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| Dan Quayle |
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good d...
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| Dave Barry |
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with ...
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| Dean Martin |
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt....
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| Doug Collins |
Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the...
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| Earl Warren |
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records peo...
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| Erma Bombeck |
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They ...
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| Ernest Hemingway |
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallet...
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| Ernie Banks |
The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose....
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| Frank Gifford |
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners...
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| Frank Gifford |
Gray skies are just clouds passing over....
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| Gary McCord |
He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win....
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| Gary McCord |
He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ba...
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| Gary McCord |
He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me lik...
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| George Bernard Shaw |
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being soo...
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| George Brett |
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissi...
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| George Deukmejian |
The difference in golf and government is that in golf you ...
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| George Orwell |
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is boun...
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| George Will |
Scholars concede but cannot explain the amazing chemistry ...
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| Gerald R. Ford |
I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Pack...
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| Gerald R. Ford |
I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fe...
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| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles....
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| Gordie Howe |
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and pr...
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| Grantland Rice |
Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about you...
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| Greg LeMond |
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the...
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| Greg LeMond |
You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take ...
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| Greg Norman |
What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good en...
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| Henry David Thoreau |
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing tha...
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| Herbert Hoover |
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion w...
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| Heywood Broun |
Sports do not build character. They reveal it....
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| Hugo Black |
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s ...
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| Hunter S. Thompson |
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro....
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| Jack Benny |
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and...
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| Jack Lemmon |
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up ...
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| Jack Nicklaus |
There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win ...
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| Jack Nicklaus |
He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've eve...
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| Jack Nicklaus |
He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body hol...
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| James Patrick Murray |
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a...
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| Jesse Owens |
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds....
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| Jesse Ventura |
Wrestling is ballet with violence....
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| Jim Bishop |
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose...
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| Jim Bouton |
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball an...
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| Jim Bouton |
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How of...
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| Jimmy Carter |
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Sp...
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| Joe Adcock |
Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying ...
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| Joe E. Lewis |
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won...
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| Joe Garagiola |
One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you t...
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| Joe Garagiola |
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing...
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| Joe Garagiola |
I went through baseball as "a player to be named later."...
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| Joe Garagiola |
Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his cur...
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| John Leonard |
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but fo...
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| John Madden |
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for...
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| John McEnroe |
I'll let the racket do the talking....
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| John Updike |
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how ch...
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| Joseph Chilton Pearce |
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind...
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| Joyce Carol Oates |
Boxing has become America's tragic theater....
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| Juan Antonio Samaranch |
Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture....
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| Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
You can't win unless you learn how to lose....
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| Katarina Witt |
When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I...
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| Lee Trevino |
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-w...
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| Mark Twain |
Golf is a good walk spoiled....
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| Mark Twain |
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls whi...
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| Martin Mull |
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your...
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| Michael Jordan |
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost a...
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| Michael Jordan |
I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot.....
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| Michael Jordan |
I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying....
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| Michael Jordan |
As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'c...
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| Michael Jordan |
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I'v...
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| Michael Jordan |
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game....
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| Mike Singletary |
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The oppo...
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| Mike Tyson |
I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I...
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| Muhammad Ali |
I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee....
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| Muhammad Ali |
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the s...
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| Nick Faldo |
He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick thro...
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| Nick Price |
Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obvious...
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| Nick Price |
He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he...
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| Norman Ralph Augustine |
Bulls do not win bull fights. People do....
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| Paul Coffey |
Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then wor...
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| Paul Harvey |
Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and wr...
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| Pete Rose |
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it s...
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| Peter Ueberroth |
The integrity of the game is everything....
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| Peter Ueberroth |
Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn...
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| Peter Ueberroth |
Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us ev...
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| Phil Jackson |
I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul....
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| Phil Jackson |
If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball....
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| Phil Jackson |
Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probab...
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| Phil Jackson |
Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart....
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| Phil Jackson |
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength....
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| Phyllis Orlikoff Flug |
'Twas Game Six of the Series when out of the sky, Flew Ser...
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| Red Auerbach |
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are devel...
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| Reggie Jackson |
Fans don't boo nobodies....
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| Reggie Jackson |
The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it....
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| Robert Frost |
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down....
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| Robert Graves |
Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signifie...
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| Robert Lynd |
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the...
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| Rodney Dangerfield |
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke...
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| Roger Kahn |
A major league baseball team is a collection of 25 youngis...
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| Roger Kahn |
Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college ...
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| Roger Kahn |
Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon ...
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| Roger Kahn |
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional ba...
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| Roger Kahn |
Horse racing is animated roulette....
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| Roger Kahn |
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they blee...
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| Roger Kahn |
Tennis and golf are best played, not watched....
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| Rogers Hornsby |
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball...
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| Rogers Hornsby |
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someo...
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| Sam Snead |
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they d...
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| Satchel Paige |
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you....
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| Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower |
Victory goes to the player who makes the next to last mist...
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| Shaquille O'Neal |
I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, mon...
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| Shaquille O'Neal |
If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Wo...
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| Steve Garvey |
The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ball...
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| Ted Williams |
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can suc...
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| Tiger Woods |
I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to wi...
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| Tiger Woods |
My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. T...
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| Tiger Woods |
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for...
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| Tom Landry |
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredib...
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| Tommy Bolt |
If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw...
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| Tug McGraw |
I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf....
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| Vince Lombardi |
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?...
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| Vince Lombardi |
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time....
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| Vince Lombardi |
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing....
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| Vince Lombardi |
Winners never quit and quitters never win....
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| Vince Lombardi |
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is....
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| Vince Lombardi |
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser....
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| Vince Lombardi |
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing....
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| Walt Whitman |
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the Americ...
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| Warren Spahn |
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing....
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| Wayne Gretzky |
You miss 100% of the shots you never take....
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| Wayne Gretzky |
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hock...
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| William A. Ward |
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break record...
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| William James |
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to fi...
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| William Wordsworth |
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness....
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| Will Rogers |
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off every...
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| Wilt Chamberlain |
Nobody roots for Goliath....
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| Woodrow Wilson |
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball wi...
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| Yogi Berra |
You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you....
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| Yogi Berra |
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true....
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