Sporting Goods Quotes

#1. When I was little, my father used to sell guns and ammo at a sporting goods store, but I always told everyone he was an arms dealer, because it sounded more exciting.

Jenny Lawson

#2. He started at a sporting goods store, where he bought several models of steel tent stakes, icepicks ("sailors buy them," an employee told him), hammers, and rubber mallets. No one even raised a brow at his purchase of Homicidal Maniac Variety Pack - As Seen On TV.

Nina Post

#3. Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.

Bob Uecker

#4. Wait until you see what I bought, Tina gushed with a female's mistaken belief that a man was ever interested in what came out of a shopping bag unless it had to do with lingerie, auto parts, or sporting goods.

Nancy Gideon

#5. I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.

Reinhold Messner

#6. I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.

Paul Newman

#7. Carli's was a small club at the end of a passage between a sporting-goods store and a circulating library. There was a grilled door and a man behind it who had given up trying to look as if it mattered who came in. (Smart-Aleck Kill)

Raymond Chandler

#8. I can't believe I can buy a shotgun at the sporting goods counter," he waved back at the entrance, "but the safe sex shit is like hidden in this little corner."
"Welcome to Utah.

James Buchanan

#9. For a long time, companies ignored the fact that 80 percent of sporting goods are sold to the casual consumer.

Jochen Zeitz

#10. Would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate.

Jack Smith

#11. Sporting goods sales have suffered because Americans have become too sedentary.

Mike May

#12. Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren't black, Spanish, or a white freak.

William Powell

#13. Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.

Horace

#14. The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing.

Rumi

#15. We can never benefit today from the wisdom we will have gained tomorrow.

Mary Balogh

#16. Will you never grow up?"
"I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.

David Eddings

#17. There is nothing missing.

Alan Cohen

#18. Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

Laurell K. Hamilton