I have found repeatedly, of late years, that I cannot fish without falling a little in self respect.
Henry David Thoreau
The essence of athletics is the pleasure you can get out of it.
Arthur Lydiard
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.
Vince Lombardi
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Henry Ford
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
Dave Barry
Drugs are very much on the scene in professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren`t penalized for being on grass.
Bob Hope
It`s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Muhammad Ali
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
Casey Stengel
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
A. A. Milne
Racecar driving is a lot like sex; all men think they`re good at it.
Jay Leno
People ask me what I do in winter when there`s no baseball. I`ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Rogers Hornsby
The reason women don`t play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
Phyllis Diller