Famous Quotes

"I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators."

Gerald R. Ford 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 Gerald R. Ford

• "I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone."

• "History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion."

• "I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am."

• "There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things."

• "All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future."