Recreational Pursuit Quotes

At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant.

I suppose I built my share of model airplanes, but I can't remember that I was a flying fanatic.

I didn't think I had time for fishing before I fished.

I don't have many hobbies. If I think of hobbies, maybe ping pong. But I don't have a desire to get a ping pong medal.

When we're on vacation - it doesn't matter where - I will go and look for a game.

The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.

Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work proper so that he is at no time independent of one technique or another. In sport the citizen of the technical society finds the same spirit, criteria, morality, actions and objectives in short, all the technical laws and customs which he encounters in office or factory.

I love to ride my bike, which is great aerobics, but also just a great time for me to think, so it's like this terrific double bill.

"After all, golf is only a game", said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying.

It started as a hobby when I was a kid, and I'm finishing as a hobby.

I love puzzles, but when I'm done putting together a puzzle, I feel accomplished, and then I wonder, "What's next?" Then I go start another puzzle.

Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters that crowd around the dugouts can quite smother the exhilarating spaciousness and grace of this impudently relaxed sport, a game of innumerable potential redemptions and curious disappointments.

I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.

There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside the arctic circle, or on a Windsor chair by the side of the River Lea in the so-called temperate zone, or you may squat in a canoe on an equatorial river, with the surrounding atmosphere forty-five percent mosquito, and if you are fishing you will enjoy yourself.

PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.

Since I was 14. I grew up surfing. That's all I wanted to do.

Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.

Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it.

It was great fun, But it was just one of those things.

Paddling a canoe is a source of enrichment and inner renewal.

What I wanted to do in talking about basketball in 'Hoop Roots' was retrieve the game as something to participate in, not to watch.

Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules freely accepted, and outside the sphere of necessity or material utility. The play-mood is one of rapture and enthusiasm, and is sacred or festive in accordance with the occasion. A feeling of exaltation and tension accompanies the action.

It is not difficult to come up with a long list of cricketers who like to have a good time - from the village green to the Test arena, it is a sociable sport.

I drive every day. I like to gamble.