Famous Quotes

"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."

Herbert Hoover 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 Herbert Hoover

• "About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends."

• "Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves."

• "It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business."

• "Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs."

• "Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity."