- Quotes by Denis Norden
“It’s a funny kind of month, October, For the really keen cricket fan it’s when you discover that your wife left you in May”. - Quotes by Martina Navratilova
“The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else”. - Quotes by Lewis Mumford
“Sport in the sense of the mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense”. - Quotes by Alan Alexander Milne
“Golf is the best game in the world at which to be bad…It is the bad player who gets the most strokes”. - Quotes by Diego Maradona
“[On a controversial goal against England in the World Cup] The goal was scored a little bit by the hand God, another bit by the head of Maradona”
- Quotes by John Patrick McEnroe
“You cannot be serious”. - Quotes by Stephen Butler Leacock
“Golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort”. - Quotes by Andrew Lang
“Golf is a thoroughly national game; it is as Scotch as haggis, cockie-leekie, high cheek-bones, or rowanberry jam”. - Quotes by Billie Jean King
“In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I’ll be worth a sentence or two…That’s why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won’t be anybody’s number one, and it’s that same old thing; if you’re not number one, then what does it really matter?” - Quotes by Brian Alexander Johnston
“I evidently greeted listeners with the words: “You join us at an interesting time. Ray Illingworth has just relieved himself at the pavilion end”.
Tags: Alan Alexander Milne, Andrew Lang, Billie Jean King, Brian Alexander Johnston, Denis Norden, Diego Maradona, John Patrick McEnroe, Lewis Mumford, Martina Navratilova, Sports And Games, Stephen Butler Leacock
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