If you drink don’t drive. Don’t even putt.
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.
Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
I overcame size with mechanics.
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
Bobby Knight told me this: ‘There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.’ In other words a good offense wins.
I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I’ve ever seen.
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.
Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.
Baseball is a man maker.
Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
