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• The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie.

  George Deukmejian

  Topics in Sports

• Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

  Erma Bombeck

  Topics in Sports

• You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Topics in Sports

• You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

  Jim Bouton

  Topics in Sports

• You know they’re not going to lose 162 consecutive games.

  Harry Caray

  Topics in Sports

• You don’t suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

  Greg LeMond

  Topics in Sports

• You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

  Bob Knight

  Topics in Sports

• You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Topics in Sports

• Wrestling is ballet with violence.

  Jesse Ventura

  Topics in Sports

• New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

  Jimmy Carter

  Topics in Sports

• My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

  Hank Aaron

  Topics in Sports

• My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.

  Bill Toomey

  Topics in Sports

• Most ball games are lost, not won.

  Casey Stengel

  Topics in Sports

• Life is about timing.

  Carl Lewis

  Topics in Sports

• It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Topics in Sports

• When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Topics in Sports

• If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.

  Bob Hope

  Topics in Sports

• If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

  Jack Lemmon

  Topics in Sports

• What’s a good tournament for him? Winning it. He’s good enough.

  Greg Norman

  Topics in Sports

• What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

  Arnold Palmer

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