Thoughts And Sayings About Bowling

A "Choc-List" of thoughts and sayings about our great sport of bowling:

"Give me a reactive urethane ball that goes long and hits like a truck, a lane that's blocked for a 10-board shot, a gorgeous woman, and you can keep the bowling ball and the lane."

"Have you ever noticed that 'bowling' spelled backwards is 'gnilwob?" (It doesn't need to make any sense, does it?)

"One of the greatest things I have learned from the sport of bowling is how to whine."

"I belong to the PBA - Practice Bowler's Association."

"It's just not fair - why does my team always end up bowling on the lanes where there are no high scores?"

"Look, I buy the same bowling ball as John over there, and he shoots a 279 and my ball happens to be the factory defect."

A proposal for a USBC rule change: "If you pray while your ball is between the foul line and when it hits the pins, the opponent can declare a dead ball because it is considered 'third-party intervention'."

"Bowling, the sport where if you shoot a good score, you can't figure out why; and, if you shoot a bad score, you can't figure out why."

"Definition of a Bowler: a person who blames bad luck for not knocking all the pins down on the first ball or missing the spare; but, takes full credit for throwing a strike."

"My timing is so bad, if I bent down to tie my shoelaces, my pants would fall down. I feel like a pregnant elephant tip-toeing across thin ice."

"Here is the essence of bowling - you walk down the approach, uncoordinated; throw the ball on the lane, unnaturally; swear under your breath at what you left, unabashedly; then repeat the process, unashamedly."

"If you could knock the pins down on every shot that you threw down the lanes, we would call the game, 'Striking,' and not 'Bowling.'

"It is difficult to golf an entire round with only a putter. So, in the modern game of bowling, you must understand that the ball changes everything."

"Bowling, you spend lots of money to buy the latest and greatest ball, and then you do nothing but bawl."

"What attracts me to the sport of bowling is that I've been doing it for thirty years and I'm still just as bad as when I started."

A Hui Hou! (See You Again!)