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Letter - 138 Spreuken
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
DetailA lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
DetailAcademe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
DetailAdversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
DetailAll hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
DetailAll sports for all people.
DetailAny time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
DetailApproach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.
DetailAs athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.
DetailBaseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
DetailBaseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
DetailBaseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
DetailBaseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.
DetailBaseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
DetailBaseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
DetailBaseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
DetailBaseball life is a tough life on the family.
DetailBaseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
DetailBasketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
DetailBobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
DetailBoxing has become America's tragic theater.
DetailBulls do not win bull fights. People do.
DetailChampions keep playing until they get it right.
DetailDo you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
DetailDon't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
DetailDon't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.
DetailEighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
DetailFans don't boo nobodies.
DetailFishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
DetailFootball is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
DetailGive me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
DetailGold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
DetailGolf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
DetailGolf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
DetailGolf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
DetailGolf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.
DetailGolf is a good walk spoiled.
DetailGolf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
DetailGood, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.
DetailGray skies are just clouds passing over.
DetailHalf the lies they tell about me aren't true.
DetailHave you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?
DetailHe has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
DetailHe hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.
DetailHe hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
DetailHe's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.
DetailHe's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.
DetailHe's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.
DetailHitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
DetailHockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
DetailI always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
DetailI am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.
DetailI don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
DetailI don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
DetailI 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.
DetailI 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.
DetailI know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
DetailI play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
DetailI regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
DetailI see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
DetailI started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.
DetailI 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.
DetailI was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
DetailI went through baseball as "a player to be named later."
DetailI went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
DetailI won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
DetailI'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
DetailI'll let the racket do the talking.
DetailI'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.
DetailI'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.
DetailI'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
DetailI'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.
DetailIf a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
DetailIf a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
DetailIf a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.
DetailIf 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.
DetailIf winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
DetailIf 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.
DetailIf you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
DetailIf you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
DetailIf you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.
DetailIf you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
DetailIf you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
DetailIt is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
DetailIt's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
DetailIt's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
DetailIt's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
DetailJust play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
DetailMany baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
DetailMany men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
DetailMost ball games are lost, not won.
DetailMost people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
DetailMy family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.
DetailMy 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.
DetailNew Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
DetailNobody roots for Goliath.
DetailNobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
DetailOlympism is the marriage of sport and culture.
DetailOne man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
DetailOne thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.
DetailOther sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.
DetailOverall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.
DetailPeople ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
DetailPerhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
DetailPlay is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
DetailPro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
DetailRelax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
DetailReverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
DetailSerious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
DetailShow me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
DetailSkiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
DetailSome people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
DetailSometimes in football you have to score goals.
DetailSports are a microcosm of society.
DetailSports do not build character. They reveal it.
DetailSuccess is where preparation and opportunity meet.
DetailTennis and golf are best played, not watched.
DetailTennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
DetailThanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
DetailThe bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.
DetailThe difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.
DetailThe difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.
DetailThe fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
DetailThe game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
DetailThe integrity of the game is everything.
DetailThe only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
DetailThe only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
DetailThe only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
DetailThe triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
DetailThe trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
DetailThe two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
DetailThere are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.
DetailThere isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
DetailThere was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.
DetailThese are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.
DetailThus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
DetailTrying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
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