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Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
Jim Bishop

Men, Fun, American

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
Martin Mull

Trouble, Ice, Glass

Wrestling is ballet with violence.
Jesse Ventura

Violence, Wrestling, Ballet

Life is about timing.
Carl Lewis

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.
Joe DiMaggio

Birthday, Forward, Happen

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
Rogers Hornsby

Someone, Play, Else

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
Billie Jean King

Perfect, Place, Action

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Barry Switzer

Life, Thinking, Through

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
Paul Coffey

Work, Good, Hard

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.
Hank Aaron

Home, Baseball, Win

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
Ernie Banks

Good, Lose, Prove

Most ball games are lost, not won.
Casey Stengel

Lost, Won, Games

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
Joyce Carol Oates

America, Become, Boxing

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.
John Updike

Past, Idiot, Become

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
Ben Hogan

Needs, Daylight, Golfer

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
Bill Veeck

Best, Baseball, Off

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
Bob Lemon

Life, Good, Strong

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
Al McGuire

Country, Why, Training

All sports for all people.
Pierre de Coubertin

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.
Thierry Henry

Football, Sometimes, Goals

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
Joseph Chilton Pearce

Play, Highest, 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.
Ben Hogan

Perfect, Golf, Natural

Sports are a microcosm of society.
Billie Jean King

Society, Microcosm

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
Charles Barkley

Basketball, Year, Direction

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Frank Gifford

Clouds, Passing, Gray

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