Sports and Games Quotes

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Children's games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles

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

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Golf is a good walk spoiled

Energy is eternal delight

And gain is gain, however small

The true object of all human life is play

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.