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Golf is a good walk spoiled.
?UnattributedOften credited to Mark Twain
I was gonna rip his heart out. I’m the best ever. I’m the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! He’s no Alexander! I’m Alexander! I’m the best ever. I’m Sonny Liston. I’m Jack Dempsey. There’s never been anyone like me. I’m from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I’m just ferocious. I want his heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!
Mike Tysonborn 1966Interview with Jim Gray (2000).
You teach me baseball and I’ll teach you relativity…no we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
- Baseball
You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn’t enough in the second half you give what’s left.
Yogi Berra1925–2015
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
Casey Stengel1890–1975
- Baseball
- Sex
This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn’t have spectators.
DVDick Vertleib
- Sex
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words: it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell1903–1950“The Sporting Spirit”, Tribune (14 December 1945)
Little League baseball is a good thing ‘cause it keeps the parents off the streets and it keeps the kids out of the house.
Yogi Berra1925–2015
- Baseball
If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi1913–1970
Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi1913–1970
- Football
My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.
Mike Tysonborn 1966
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Muhammad Ali1942–2016Attributed in Chambers Sporting Quotations‎ (1990), by Simon James, p. 27
There are three types of baseball players: those who make things happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.
Tommy Lasorda1927–2021
- Baseball
I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost1874–1963