The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Sports are a microcosm of society.
Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.
Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.
My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
Wrestling is ballet with violence.
Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.
If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.
I went through baseball as ‘a player to be named later.’
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
Boxing has become America’s tragic theater.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
