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"Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught."

Ambrose Bierce on Sports

More quotes about Sports

  • "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

    Michael Jordan on Sports

  • "It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."

    Mark Twain on Sports

  • "Golf is a good walk spoiled."

    Mark Twain on Sports

  • "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

    Hunter S. Thompson on Sports

  • "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

    Henry David Thoreau on Sports

More quotes by Ambrose Bierce

  • "Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age."

  • "Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."

  • "Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

  • "Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."

  • "Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

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