I prefer rugby to soccer. When soccer players start biting
each other's ears off again, maybe I'll like it better.
—ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Puck: A hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.
—JIMMY CANNON
Hockey's the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.
—FRANK DEFORD
Lincoln went down in history as "Honest Abe," but he never
was a jockey. If he had been a jockey, he might have gone
down as just "Abe."
—WILL ROGERS
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
—P.O. WODEHOUSE
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox: The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
—OSCAR WILDE
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
—STEVEN WRIGHT
There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.
—MARK TWAIN
In literature, fishing is indeed an exhilarating sport; but
so far as my experience goes, it does not pan out when you
carry the idea further.
—IRVIN S. COBB
The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars'
worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in
the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.
—P.J. O'ROURKE
I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of a hill.
—ERMA BOMBECK