If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.
George Brett

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
Charles Barkley

If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
Ben Hogan

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.
Tommy Bolt

If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
Dean Martin

If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
Shaquille O'Neal

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.
Phil Jackson

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
Jack Lemmon

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

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan

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

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
Pete Rose

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Mark Twain

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
Michael Jordan

Life is about timing.
Carl Lewis

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau

Most ball games are lost, not won.
Casey Stengel

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
William James