Quotes by American Authors - Page 47

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.
Frank Harris
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
Kenneth Hildebrand
I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Tallulah Bankhead
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
Thomas Merton
Strong people don't need strong leaders.
Ella Baker
If we are strong our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak words will be no help.
John F Kennedy
I feel like a Bull Moose.
Theodore Roosevelt
Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson
Learn to think continentally.
Alexander Hamilton
Twinkle twinkle little star! How I wonder what you are Up above the world so high Like a diamond in the sky!
Anne Taylor
Silently one by one in the infinite meadows of heaven Blossomed the lovely stars the forget-me-nots of the angels.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Came the Spring with all its splendor All its birds and all its blossoms All its flowers and leaves and grasses.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If there comes a little thaw Still the air is chill and raw Here and there a patch of snow Dirtier than the ground below Dribbles down a marshy flood Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing "This is Spring."
C. P. Cranch
He spends so much time in the sand trap you'd think he was in the cast of Baywatcb.
Tim Conway
Baseball it is said is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes or games are created equal.
George Will
Your brain commands your body to "Run forward! Bend! Scoop up the ball! Peg it to the infield!" Then your body says "Who me?"
Joe DiMaggio
My father watched football with the sound off because he lived in fear of hearing the voice of Howard Cosell.
Rita Rudner
Nobody in football should be called a genius. Football players are not like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theisman
Stated to a running back after an overly exuberant display of celebration: Next time you make a touchdown act like you've been there before.
Vince Lombardi
Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.
Rita Rudner
What a terrible round. I only hit two good balls all day and that was when I stepped on a rake in a bunker.
Lee Trevino
I used to want to shoot my age. Now I would just like to shoot my temperature.
Jerry Feliciotto
You've got just one problem. You stand too close to the ball - after you've hit it.
Sam Snead
I don't say my golf game is bad but if I grew tomatoes they'd come up sliced.
Miller Barber
Golf is like a love affair: if you don't take it seriously it's no fun if you do take it seriously it breaks your heart.
Arnold Daly
By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball he can't hit that far.
Jacob Braude
Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.
Yogi Berra
If you watch a game it's fun. If you play it it's recreation. If you work at it it's golf.
Bob Hope
player: Can I reach it with a five iron? caddie: Eventually.
John Adams
Golf is not a matter of life or death. It is much more important than that.
Rod Powers
The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.
Phyllis Diller
Gimme: An agreement between two losers who can't putt.
Jim Bishop
My golf has really improved even though my score hasn't. I'm missing the ball much closer now.
Richard Bull
I play in the low eighties. If it's any hotter than that I won't play.
Joe E. Lewis
My best score is 103 but I've only been playing for fifteen years.
Alex Karras
You know you're getting old when you start watching golf on TV and enjoying it.
Larry Miller
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright
Go jogging? And get hit by a meteor?
Robert Benchley
They X-rayed my head and found nothing.
Dizzy Dean
Slumps in life are like soft beds. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.
Johnny Bench
I want you all to line up in alphabetical order according to your size.
Casey Stengel
Ninety per cent of this game is half-mental.
Yogi Berra
Knute Rockne liked 'bad losers.' He said 'good losers' lose too often.
George Allen
Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.
Casey Stengel
Well God is certainly getting an earful tonight.
Jim Murray
The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet.
Damon Runyon
The game isn't over until it's over.
Yogi Berra
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Thomas Jefferson
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain
Trying to get a fast ball past Hank Aaron is like trying to get the sun past a rooster.
Curt Simmons
Catching a fly ball is a pleasure but knowing what to do with it is a business.
Tommy Henrich
Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player.
John McPhee
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm you'll be fired with enthusiasm.
Vince Lombardi
Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
Bill Bradley
Every time you win you're reborn when you lose you die a little.
George Allen
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood Broun
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
Vince Lombardi
Let's win this one for the Gipper.
Knute Rockne
When you win nothing hurts.
Joe Namath