Famous Quotes

"Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him."

Blaise Pascal on Sports

More quotes about Sports

• "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

  Michael Jordan on Sports

• "It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."

  Mark Twain on Sports

• "Golf is a good walk spoiled."

  Mark Twain on Sports

• "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

  Hunter S. Thompson on Sports

• "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

  Henry David Thoreau on Sports

More quotes by Blaise Pascal

• "All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."

• "The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory."

• "It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory."

• "Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them."

• "Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world."