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.
Derek MalcolmBut yet not cloy thy lips with loathed satiety, but rather famish them amid their plenty, making them red and pale with fresh variety, ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty! a summer´s day will seem an hour but short, being wasted in such time beguiling sport. (venus´n´adonis, poem)
William ShakespeareHave the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody
JuvenalSuch challenges [test cricket] require people who are more than 100% committed, dedicated, disciplined and passionate about the game, what it seeks to achieve and how those involved in the game can best serve cricket, sport and the wider community. [On retiring from test cricket]
Damien MartynThe thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it.
Jimmy GreavesA little love-in before the main event can do you more good than a rub-down with the Sporting Life.
John ContehI always turn to the sports section first... the front page has nothing but man's failures.
Earl WarrenSport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinSport, it doesn't matter whether you win or lose... It's how drunk you get.
Homer SimpsonA rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
Jimmy CannonHockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
Tiger WoodsOne thing that rugby is generally is incredibly fair, and with it being a team sport no individual is bigger than the game itself
Jeremy GuscottOlympic figure skating - a sport where competitors are dressed as dinner mints.
Jere LongmanLondon has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid]
Bradley WigginsThere should be no place whatsoever in any sport for people who take these performance enhancing drugs
Asif IqbalMother... just because I wear trackies and play sports does not make me a lesbian! (Bend It Like Beckham)
Keira KnightleyMy favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.
Gordon BrownThe Nemesis of excess in athletics is professionalism, which is the death of all true sport.
E N GardinerIt's the best thing to happen to a sport, that you have a superstar. In football there is always something to write about the Beckhams, same as people want to write about Rooney or Hooney or whatever his bloody name is.
Bernie EcclestoneAbsolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.
Roy ClarkSports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.
Noam ChomskyVery little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
P J O'RourkeBaseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.
Ty CobbThe Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
Ken CalvertMen are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
Lord ByronPlaying for Success is working tremendously well since its launch five years ago. It's getting lots of schoolkids more involved with their local sports teams while teaching them the basics in a way that interests them.' - on initiatives to improve English rugby
Jonny WilkinsonI'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.
Martina HingisTo receive it from Ian, my boyhood hero, makes it all the more sweet [on winning sports personality of the year, 2005]
Andrew FlintoffHe'll go down as one of the guys who changed our sport in a lot of ways, not only the way he played the game, but also the way that he conducted himself on and off the court.
Lleyton HewittYour sex shouldn't matter when it comes to sport. If you put in the effort to train hard, whether you are male or female, you deserve the rewards.
Rain MakoWhen you are drumming and really feeling the music, the beat, it is like you are transported to a different place, where you feel so exhilirated and calm through your whole body.
Mickey HartI'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.
Hugh Fearnley-whittingstallSports do not build character. They reveal it.
Haywood Hale BrounUnlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
Lewis H LaphamFor I must go where lazy Peace
Will hide her drowsy head;
And, for the sport of kings, increase
The number of the dead.
William DavenantAll sports for all people.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinOf all the talking points which make international sport fascinating, selecting a team to represent the country surely takes pride of place.
E W SwantonFishing is the king of sports, there is nothing as relaxing as a day fishing and nothing as satisfying as landing a big catch.
Rex HuntWe're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from an illness which almost killed her.
Bob CostasThe Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
Avery BrundageBy working with Stella McCartney I have been able to combine two things that are important to me - my sport and my style.
Maria KirilenkoThere isn't anything on earth as depressing as an old sportswriter.
Ring LardnerI'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organize play, the spirit of play.
Simon GrayThere is something for everyone in sports.
Arnold BeisserSuccess comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinTheatre sports is the best improv training period.
Wayne BradyAmazing, this is absolutely amazing - the year I have had has been amazing [on Sports personality award]
Zara PhillipsCards are war, in disguise of a sport
Charles LambThere is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter.
René MaheuThere's probably no other sport [than tennis], and very few professions in this world, where a woman can earn as much as a man.
John McEnroe
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