Sport Quotes - page 4

Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on? (Bill Maher)
A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell its issue without losing a stroke of the razor, and can explain the points of inferiority of all the players, as compared with the better men that he has personally seen elsewhere, with the nicety of a professional. View quote
Stephen Leacock
Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be. View quote
Philip Guedalla
Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature. View quote
Robert Redford
You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport. View quote
Jerry Saltz
In my view he's the best person I've met in this sport. View quote
Alessandro Del Piero
I consider myself a pretty rounded guy. I've done pretty elite things in business, sport and academics and all of a sudden I woke up one morning and I'm a 'big, black, British, gay guy. View quote
John Amaechi
I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred thousand dollars there and immediately buys a yacht, begins to race fast horses, and becomes a sport generally. My tastes lie in a different direction. When business hours are over I go home and spend the remainder of the day with my wife, my children, and books of my library. Every man has natural inclinations of his own. Mine are domestic. They are not calculated to make me particularly popular in Wall Street, and I cannot help that. View quote
Jay Gould
When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when I admire a beautiful combination or study, then chess is art, and when I am complicating position in the approaching time trouble of my opponent, then chess is sport. View quote
Ashot Nadanian
Of all the creatures that were made he [man] is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one - the solitary one - that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices - the most hateful...He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain...Also - in all the list he is the only creature that has a nasty mind. View quote
Mark Twain
In the silence that is his chosen medium of communication and telling others about it in words. Is there no way not to be the sport of reason? (R. S. Thomas)
College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register. View quote
Mike Tyson
Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter, holding both his sides. Come, and trip it, as you go. On the light fantastic toe. View quote
John Milton
Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorrèd shears, And slits the thin-spun life. View quote
John Milton
In the name of all the competitors I promise that we shall take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by the rules which govern them, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams. View quote
Pierre de Coubertin
Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes. View quote
Pierre de Coubertin
In no way can sport be considered a luxury object. View quote
Pierre de Coubertin
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. View quote
Pierre de Coubertin
Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for. View quote
Pierre de Coubertin
In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget. (Walt Disney)
Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go. View quote
Mark Spitz
I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program. View quote
Mark Spitz
Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace. View quote
Novak Djokovic