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"The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break."; "The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register."; "Sports do not build character. They reveal it."; "Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple."; "Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold."; "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."; "One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it."; "Nobody roots for Goliath."; "Life is about timing."; "If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out."; "Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing."; "He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win."; "Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors."; "Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best."; "Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun."; "Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five."; "God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure."; "Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air."; "Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk."; "Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play."; "Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity."; "Sports are a microcosm of society."; "Champions keep playing until they get it right."; "Tennis and golf are best played, not watched."; "I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press."; "Horse racing is animated roulette."; "Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye."; "Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed."; "Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up."; "You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."; "Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?"; "Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer."; "The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight."; "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."; "If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived."; "I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games."; "As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round."; "Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win."; "All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity."; "A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be."; "It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf."; "Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture."; "Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns."; "A lifetime of training for just ten seconds."; "Most ball games are lost, not won."; "Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose."; "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."; "All sports for all people."; "Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength."; "If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball."; "I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul."; "Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart."; "The integrity of the game is everything."; "Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day."; "Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on."; "Bulls do not win bull fights. People do."; "I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children."; "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."; "One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth."; "Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out."; "I went through baseball as "a player to be named later.""; "Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast."; "Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster."; "New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up."; "Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."; "The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them."; "My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging."; "I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators."; "I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today."; "Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."; "The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green."; "Gray skies are just clouds passing over."; "You win some, lose some, and wreck some."; "Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."; "What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive."; "Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught."; "Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness."; "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."; "Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is."; "Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."; "Winners never quit and quitters never win."; "Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps."; "I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out."; "Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game."; "I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result."; "Golf is a good walk spoiled."; "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."; "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."; "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."; "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."; "Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence."; "Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face."; "The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course."
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