Sport Quotes - page 3

I have a passion for playing tennis and enjoy the workload and struggles of performing in this amazing global sport. (Sania Mirza)
Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It's probably the only sport I enjoy. View quote
Ai Weiwei
You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body. View quote
Geoffrey Rush
The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with a stick by suggesting linkages between the sport and deep issues of morality, parenthood, history, lost innocence, gentleness, and so on, seemingly ad infinitum. (The effort reeks of silliness because baseball is profound all by itself and needs no excuses; people who don't know this are not fans and are therefore unreachable anyway.) View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists. View quote
Neve Campbell
I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics. View quote
Kal Penn
O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection. View quote
Thomas à Kempis
Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient. View quote
Willa Cather
Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport. View quote
Maria Edgeworth
My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football.... Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport. (Camille Paglia)
Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport. View quote
Marc Anthony
The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture. View quote
Garry Kasparov
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it. View quote
Irwin Shaw
It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle. View quote
George Herbert
The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion. View quote
Roger Bannister
Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work proper so that he is at no time independent of one technique or another. In sport the citizen of the technical society finds the same spirit, criteria, morality, actions and objectives in short, all the technical laws and customs which he encounters in office or factory. View quote
Jacques Ellul
The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which he is subjected, but without knowing it trains himself for new compulsions. ... Training in sports makes of the individual an efficient piece of apparatus which is henceforth unacquainted with anything but the harsh joys of exploiting his body and winning. View quote
Jacques Ellul
Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. View quote
Paul Rodriguez (actor)
Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. View quote
Bion of Borysthenes
When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten. (Robert M. Pirsig)
When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me? View quote
Michel de Montaigne
When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men? View quote
Phyllis Schlafly
The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport. View quote
Johnny Miller
Play with passion and heart. If you don't carry passion into sport -- or in any job for that matter -- you won't succeed. View quote
Phil Esposito