Famous Quotes

"I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies."

Will Rogers 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 Will Rogers

• "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock."

• "Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need."

• "The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'"

• "Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious."

• "The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you."