Recreational Pursuits Quotes

Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.

People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?

My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself.

I started making monkey bridges, like kids do, and climbing and rappelling with ropes. Very naturally, I needed some knots. At the very beginning, I didn't care, I didn't know, and then slowly I started to know, and I started to care. I wanted to know more knots or the right knot for the special action.

Jacksonville has exceptionally good talent in the areas of modality activities.

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear

I was a snowboard bum and a climbing bum.

We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves

I have a love of baseball and a love of music.

Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.

The people must have amusement as well as religion...every pure enjoyment is from heaven.

My kids all do love to hunt and fish. When they get together, I think that's what they get together more for than anything else.

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing.

If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

I miss my boats, and I miss having the ability to be out on the water during the daytime and then go skiing at night.

I'd like it to be remembered as you had some fun. We're only here [living] for some fun. I think if you learn something, all well and good, but we're only here to give you some fun. Along the way, you may find out something.

For humans and animals alike, truly vigorous, wholehearted, spontaneous play is something of a biological frill.

I'm bored," she said. "Learn how to tap-dance," he suggested, without turning around.

Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.

Most people spend their lives on their endeavors, and I get the privilege to have been doing this since I was five. I get to go play and have fun and entertain people.

Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I do because first, they take you into the fields. There is mild exercise, the kind that an older individual probably should have. And on top of it, it induces you to take at any one time 2 or 3 hours, if you can, where you are thinking of the bird or that ball or the wily trout. Now, to my mind it is a very healthful, beneficial kind of thing, and I do it whenever I get a chance, as you well know.

The fact that we live in a world that moves crisis by crisis does not make a growing interest in outdoor activities frivolous, or ample provision for them unworthy of the nation's concern.