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Quotes About Pastime

I like my fair share of board games.
~ Sunil Chhetri
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books.
~ Robertson Davies
I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?
~ Terry Tempest Williams, Leap
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
~ Mary Russell Mitford
I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.
~ Mark McGwire
I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games.
~ Bo Jackson
Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.
~ Roger Maris
Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them.
~ Jimmy Demaret
Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.
~ Jimmy Demaret
Going to the movies is one of my favorite things to do.
~ Lamorne Morris
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
~ Jacques Barzun
I don't watch much tennis, never really have.
~ Ashleigh Barty
I like watching tennis and basketball, but it's not every day you can watch it on TV. I don't play them, though.
~ Michael Essien
I used to play lots of sports. I used to be a good tennis player. I used to be a decent golfer.
~ Chris Murphy
Golf was his greatest indulgence.
~ Ron Chernow
Fantasy football is actually an amazing American pastime, because it takes the ultimate team sport, NFL and football, and turns it into the quest for individual achievement.
~ Jeff Schaffer
I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.
~ Harrison Ford
Watching a ball game is one of the sweetest pleasures in the world.
~ Silvia Tennenbaum
You know you're getting old when you start watching golf on TV and enjoying it.
~ Larry Miller
We are here for our amusement.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Oh, I fooled around with baseball, but I never really took it serious.
~ Gene Autry
Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
~ E. W. Howe
Digital texts are all well and good, but books on shelves are a presence in your life. As such, they become a part of your day-to-day existence, reminding you, chastising you, calling to you. Plus, book collecting is, hands down, the greatest pastime in the world.
~ Michael Dirda
The one thing I've never been into are the sports games. I don't know, I just don't like playing those as much.
~ Gordon Hayward