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| Books had instant replay long before televised SPORTS. | Bert Williams | |
| The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. | Jean Claude Killy | 1943-, French Alpine Skier |
| The SPORTS page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures. | Earl Warren | 1891-1974, American Politician, Judge |
| True disputants are like true SPORTSman: their whole delight is in the pursuit. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Politics is a blood sport. | Aneurin Bevan | 1897-1960, British Labor Politician |
| There is a syndrome in SPORTS called ''paralysis by analysis.'' | Arthur Ashe | 1943-1993, African-American Tennis Player |
| Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. | Charles Lamb | 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic |
| SPORTS should always be fun. | Charles Mann | American Football Player |
| Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games. | Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal (c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet | |
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| Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money. | Dennis Rodman | 1961-, American Basketball Player, Actor |
| The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon. | Douglas William Jerrold | 1803-1857, British Humorist, Playwright |
| I always turn to the SPORTS page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing, but man's failures. | Earl Warren | 1891-1974, American Politician, Judge |
| For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture. | Ernest Becker | 1924-1974, American Psychologist, Cultural Anthropologist |
| Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honour. | Ernest Hemingway | 1898-1961, American Writer |
| Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and SPORTSmanship are all necessary for winning. | Fred Perry | |
| The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all SPORTS. | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844-1900, German Philosopher |
| When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
| Competition is the spice of SPORTS; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick. | George Leonard | |
| Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting. | George Orwell | 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm'' |
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| I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat. | Hank Aaron | 1934-, American Baseball Player |
| The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing. | Jackie Joyner Kersee | 1962-, American Track Athlete |
| The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing. | Jackie Joyner Kersee | 1962-, American Track Athlete |
| Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. | James A. Froude | 1818-1894, British Historian |
| For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn? | Jane Austen | 1775-1817, British Novelist |
| I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em. | Jim Valvano | American College Basketball Coach |
| In SPORTS... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever. | Joe Montana | 1956-, American Football Player |
| SPORTS do not build character. They reveal it. | John Wooden | 1910-, American Basketball Coach |
| One man practicing SPORTSmanship is far better than fifty preaching it. | Knute Rockne | 1888-1931, Norwegian-born American Football Coach |
| Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men. | Lord Byron | 1788-1824, British Poet |
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| For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not SPORTS, and should be deemed as their most serious actions. | Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist |
| Even from their infancy we frame them to the SPORTS of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. | Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist |
| Do you know what my favourite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. | Mike Singletary | American Football Player |
| The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. | Peggy Fleming | American Skater |
| A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. | Roland Barthes | 1915-1980, French Semiologist |
| Competing in SPORTS has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will. | Ron Blomberg | American Baseball Player |
| When a flirt fishes for a man, she fishes merely for the sport. | Source Unknown | |
| Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids. | Source Unknown | |
| Skiing: the art of catching cold and going broke while rapidly heading nowhere at great personal risk. | Source Unknown | |
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| Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world. | Theodore Roosevelt | 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA |
| The greatest efforts in SPORTS came when the mind is as still as a glass lake. | Timothy Gallwey | American Tennis Player, Author |
| I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion. | Tom Stoppard | 1937-, Czech Playwright |
| When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out. | Tommy Lasorda | 1927-, American Baseball Manager |
| Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| For 'Tis the sport to have the engineer hoisted with his own petard. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100 percent dedication, you won't be able to do this. | Willie Mays | 1931-, American Baseball Player |
