- Quotes by Dr Samuel Johnson
“Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. I am sorry I have not learned to play cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness and consolidates society”. - Quotes by John Paul ll
“It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly”. - Quotes by Jerome Klapka
“All that is required to make a good fisherman (some people say) is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing’. - Quotes by Cyril Lionel Robert James
“Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with the threatre, ballet, opera and the dance. What do they know of cricket who only cricket know? West Indians crowding toTests bring with them the whole past history and future hopes of the islands”.
- Quotes by Bo Jackson
“Baseball was fun when I was in college. It’s my job now. But I like my 3-11 shift”. - Quotes by John Irving
“[On baseball] It is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited results”. - Quotes by Thomas Hughes
“[On cricket] It’s more than a game. It’s an institution”. - Quotes by Alfred Edward Housman
“Twice a week the winter through, Here stood I keep the goal: Football then was fighting sorrow, For the young man’s soul. Now in Maytime to the wicket, Out I march with bat and pad: See the son of grief at cricket, Trying to be glad”.
Tags: Alfred Edward Housman, Bo Jackson, Cyril Lionel Robert James, Dr Samuel Johnson, Jerome Klapka, John Irving, John Paul ll, Sports And Games, Thomas Hughes
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