"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up." - Muhammad Ali, quoted in New York Times

"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base." - Dave Barry

"Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical." - Yogi Berra

"Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is." - Ashleigh Brilliant

"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target." - Ashleigh Brilliant

"Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness." - Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, speech (1873)

"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

"Par is whatever I say it is. I've got one hole that's a par 23 and yesterday I damn near birdied the sucker." - Willie Nelson

"Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)

"It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)

"Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)

"Practice does not make perfect; perfect practice makes perfect." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)

"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)

"If I had known that I was gonna live this long I'd have taken better care of myself." - Mantle, Mickey

"Golf: a game where the ball always lies poorly and the player well." - Readers Digest

"It's not who wins or loses that counts--it's who keeps score." - Short, Solomon