Quotes to inspire and reflect

If I'm on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast. If God wants to play through, let him.

The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.

I’m the best. I just haven’t played yet.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Everyone should believe in something; I believe I’ll go fishing.

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong. They never called me nigger.

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.

If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman’s behind!

You can be free. You can be black. Look at me! I’m the Heavyweight Champion! Can’t nobody stop me.

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won.

Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say.

Don’t count the days, make the days count.

To be a great champion you must first believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can make something out of you.

Journalist Harry Cosell was going to be a boxer when he was a kid, only they couldn’t find a mouthpiece big enough.

The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.

Baseball it is said is only a game. True and the Grand Canyon is only a hole in the ground.

The reason women don’t play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.

To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.

We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it.

I was called "Rembrandt" Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

Sports are the reason I am out of shape. I watch them all on TV.

Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.

I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.

I will not survive this attack. Stalin has finally accomplished the task he attempted unsuccessfully before.

Go away. I'm all right.

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

The car seems OK...

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case. What now?

I see black light.

I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.

God will pardon me, that's his line of work.