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| Arnold Palmer | Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. |
| Babe Ruth | I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run. |
| Babe Ruth | Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. |
| Billie Jean King | Champions keep playing until they get it right. |
| Bob Hope | If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. |
| Carl Lewis | Life is about timing |
| Charles Barkley | I was going to sue for defamation of character, but then I realized I have no character. |
| Dean Martin | If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt. |
| Erma Bombeck | Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. |
| Ernest Hemingway | The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the pu [read rest of quote] |
| Fran Lebowitz | Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a go [read rest of quote] |
| George Bernard Shaw | Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. |
| H. L. Mencken | College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students - there wou [read rest of quote] |
| H. L. Mencken | Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. |
| Helen Keller | Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have liv [read rest of quote] |
| Joe Theismann, Former quarterback | Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein. |
| Lyndon Baines Johnson | Gerry Ford is a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off. |
| P. G. Wodehouse | The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wron [read rest of quote] |
| Paul Fussell | The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class. |
| Phil Jackson | Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall eff [read rest of quote] |
| Rogers Hornsby | People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the [read rest of quote] |
| Shaquille O'Neal | I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pe [read rest of quote] |
| Stephen Leacock | A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something. |
