Quotes by Authors - Page 56

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Style is the dress of thoughts.
Lord Chesterfield
You are in some brown study.
John Lyly
Histories make men wise poets witty the mathematics subtile natural philosophy deep morals grave logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Sir Francis Bacon
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Victor Hugo
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
Kenneth Hildebrand
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
Thomas Merton
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
Twinkle twinkle little star! How I wonder what you are Up above the world so high Like a diamond in the sky!
Anne Taylor
Stars are the daisies that begem The blue fields of the sky.
D. M. Momzine
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
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
I used to want to shoot my age. Now I would just like to shoot my temperature.
Jerry Feliciotto
I'm not playing with my brother-in-law today. Would you play with a man who improves his lie and cheats on his score? Well neither would he!
Anonymous
If people focused on life's really important matters there'd be a shortage of golf clubs.
Anonymous
My golf is getting better all the time. Today I parred all but sixteen holes.
Wendy Morgan
This guy is such an obvious cheater that once when he had a hole in one he wrote down zero on his scorecard.
Anonymous
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
Golf and sex: Two things you can really enjoy without being that good at them.
Anonymous
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
I get confused with all the rules in golf. Let's say you're playing in L.A. and your ball lands on a dead body. Is your relief one or two club lengths?
Wendy Morgan
I asked my instructor how I could cut ten strokes off my score. He told me to quit on hole 17!
Arlene Powers
It's not that I really cheat at golf. I play for my health and a low score makes me feel better.
Anonymous
My best score is 103 but I've only been playing for fifteen years.
Alex Karras
He who has the fastest cart never has a bad lie.
Anonymous
As a woman I resent the fact that in golf if I have the highest score I'm the loser.
Wendy Morgan
Slumps in life are like soft beds. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.
Johnny Bench
Our team was surprisingly consistent this year. We closed with a seven-seven record. We lost seven at home and seven on the road.
Steve Wheeler
When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?
Michel Montaigne
I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.
T. H. Huxley
Ninety per cent of this game is half-mental.
Yogi Berra
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
Hockey captures the essence of the Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold hockey is the dance of life and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.
Bruce Kidd
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Thomas Jefferson
A sportsman is a man who every now and then simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he's cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big enough.
Stephen Leacock
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain
Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player.
John McPhee
International sport is war without shooting.
George Orwell
Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.
Viktor Frankl
When you win nothing hurts.
Joe Namath
Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people - which is why horses are admitted to race tracks at the age of two and jockeys before they are old enough to shave.
Dick Beddoes
You can't think and hit at the same time.
Yogi Berra
Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George F. Will
The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right.
Zelda Fitzgerald
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.
Woody Allen
The soul is awakened through service.
Erica Jong
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
God answers all our prayers. Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes the answer is no. Sometimes the answer is you've got to be kidding!
Jimmy Carter
Prayer may not change things for you but it for sure changes you for things.
Samuel Shoemaker
God gave you a gift of 86 400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"?
William Arthur Ward