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If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.
George Brett

Her, Losing, Sister

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
Joe Adcock

Sunrise, Past, Trying

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
Warren Spahn

Timing, Hitting, Pitching

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.
Gerald R. Ford

Today, Football, Hard

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?
Al Boliska

Golf, Noticed, Backwards

If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
Shaquille O'Neal

Game, Why, Playing

I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.
Sasha Cohen

Love, Person, Challenge

There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
Jack Nicklaus

Great, Win, Might

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
Jack Nicklaus

Golf, Seen, Sound

He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.
Jack Nicklaus

Time, Long, Play

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.
Jim Bouton

Life, Time, Good

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
Nolan Ryan

Life, Family, Baseball

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
Sam Snead

Death, Golf, Club

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
John Madden

Rules, Break, Players

I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
Joe E. Lewis

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
Ben Hogan

Play, Golf, Anybody

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
Doug Collins

Time, Win, Team

The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.
George Deukmejian

Government, Lie, Golf

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.
Lee Trevino

Work, Money, Game

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
Joe Garagiola

Baseball, Run, Drama

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Arnold Palmer

Good, Art, Poetry

The integrity of the game is everything.
Peter Ueberroth

Integrity, Game, Everything

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
Robert Wilson Lynd

Remember, Impossible, Place

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
Norman Ralph Augustine

Win, Fights, Bull

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.
Bill Toomey

Family, Realize, Hand

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