H. L. Mencken Quotes About Sports

• It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sports, Golf, Gambling

• War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sports, Peace, War

• I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sports, Hate, Common Sense

  Quoted in Fred Metcalfe The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations (1986).

• All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all its forms, but also for every variety of calisthenics, so that I still begrudge the trifling exertion needed to climb in and out of a bathtub, and hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. If I had my way no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States, and all female athletes would be shipped to the white-slave corrals of the Argentine.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Sports, Horse

• I hate sports the way people who like sports hate common sense.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sports, Hate, People

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