Angling Quote by Jim Harrison Download Open image “Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls...” — Jim Harrison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Angling Balls Boat Fisherman Fishes Fishing Fly fishing Lakes Life Littles Rivers Sea Seems Tennis Tournaments
I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen. — Ted Williams Copy Share Image
Fishing as a spectator sport in real time is the most boring thing you can imagine. — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . . — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better. — David Walker Copy Share Image
Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection. — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
I'm not a golf player. I think golf and fishing are the same, but at the end of the day, you can't fry up… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
You know, you can only play just so much golf or go fishing just so often. — Fred MacMurray Copy Share Image
I'm probably going to be retired fishing somewhere in the north of Australia with not a tennis ball in sight. — Bernard Tomic Copy Share Image
You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
“A fishing life changes and everyday offers the promise of a new experience. To the dedicated angler, fishing is not sport or recreation. It… — Jadon Wilder Copy Share Image
“Perhaps swimming was dancing in the water, he thought. To swim under lily pads seeing their green slender stalks wavering as you passed, to… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“(from: Age Sixty-nine) There is this circle I walk that I have learned to love. I hope one day to be a spiral but… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“. . . another year has passed, or so they say, but calenders lie. They're a kind of cosmic business machine like their cousin… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all.” — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish. — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
In every species of fish I've angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that… — Ray Bergman Copy Share Image
“Smile, tip your traditional hat, and enjoy your time by the water.” — Fennel Hudson Copy Share Image
I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly? — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
“There’s always an opportunity to fish for something – even if it’s just for laughs or ideas.” — Fennel Hudson Copy Share Image
“At all times and in all places, in season and out of season, time is now and England, place is now and England; past… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
