Famous Quotes

"Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns."

John Leonard 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 John Leonard

• "Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?"

• "It takes a long time to grow an old friend."

• "Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?"

• "It takes a long time to grow an old friend."