I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.
Phil Jackson

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

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
Gerald R. Ford

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
Gerald R. Ford

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
Michael Jordan

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
Ben Hogan

I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
Joe E. Lewis

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Walt Whitman

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.
Mike Tyson

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
Roger Kahn

I went through baseball as "a player to be named later."
Joe Garagiola

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
Rodney Dangerfield

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost

I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
Muhammad Ali

I'll let the racket do the talking.
John McEnroe

I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.
Ben Hogan

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
Shaquille O'Neal

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

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
Sam Snead