A sporting hero has been born in South Africa, and the country needs somebody young, fresh, enthusiastic and committed. This is a guy who you know will climb Everest for South Africa. [on Graeme Smith] View quotes by Ali Bacher
Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.
A little love-in before the main event can do you more good than a rub-down with the Sporting Life. View quotes by John Conteh
The capacity of sporting journalists to wax lyrical in the face of the exceptional is matched only by the speed with which they run out of adjectives in doing so. View quotes by Derek Malcolm
A sporting system is the by-product of society and its political system, and it is just boyhood dreaming to suppose you can ever take politics out of sport. View quotes by Peter Hain
Sporting Lisbon in their green and white hoops, looking like a team of zebras. View quotes by Peter Jones
A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport. View quotes by Pierre De Coubertin
I don't watch movies a lot. I watch sporting events. Because you can never tell how they're going to end. View quotes by Michael Douglas
This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon] View quotes by Maria Sharapova
I'd seen it on top of the pops [son of my father]. The band were proper platform heeleed, tank top sporting, chest wig wearing glam rockers, and I'm pretty sure it was top of the charts for several weeks. View quotes by Hugh Fearnley-whittingstall
