People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.
Martina NavratilovaWhen badminton was accepted into the Barcelona Olympic Games it showed that there was an acceptance of my sport internationally.
Rhonda CatorOf course a sports psychologist can help - it's certainly helped me [on Wayne Rooney]
David JamesSports beget tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels.
HoraceWomen's tennis is the leader in women's sports. Equal prize money is a no-brainer
Billie Jean KingThis sport is just as much about your teammates as you and your individual performance.
Mia HammI don't believe she will ever be able to repair her image. For the sake of her own well-being and the sport, it would be best if she went away quietly.
[Marion Jones]
Michael JohnsonThere are people who put their own dismal prejudices, their half-baked colonial chippiness and their enjoyment of the agreeable futilities of sport ahead of these terrible things.
Simon BarnesBaseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.
Ty CobbWe'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 CostasHave the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody
JuvenalA 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]
Ali BacherWhen 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 HartFor I must go where lazy Peace
Will hide her drowsy head;
And, for the sport of kings, increase
The number of the dead.
William DavenantI keep getting these extraordinary letters from American sports stars saying: 'I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now you're single I want to meet you for a drink.
Liz HurleyCards are war, in disguise of a sport
Charles LambSports do not build character. They reveal it.
Haywood Hale BrounLondon Transport commissioned a study to find out why buses were running late and it turned out it was because they kept stopping to let people on.
Rory McGrathWhy they call a fellow that keeps losing all the time a 'good sports' gets one.
Charles E HughesOur sports are totally different, if Lance Armstrong himself were to come and train with us he'd be completely exhausted after half and hour.
Joachim LowRodeoing is about the only sport you can't fix. You'd have to talk to the bulls and the horses, and they wouldn't understand you.
Bill LindermanI have recently taken up two new sports: roller skating and ankle spraining, in that order. I am getting quite good at both.
Miles KingtonThey read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.
Mike SchmidtSunday league cricket: multi-coloured pyjamas, two tone umpires, and white balls with black seams. There is nothing like traditional English sport.
David HunnI have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honour for me. There's no better time to try this than now.
Michael PhelpsIf you look like your passport photo you're too ill to travel.
Joe PasqualeI'm glad to say that this is the first Saturday in four weeks that sport will be weather-free [classic Colemanball!]
David ColemanThe man that has no friend at court,
Must make the laws confine his sport,
But he that has, by dint of flaws,
may make his sport confine the laws.
Thomas ChattertonThere isn't anything on earth as depressing as an old sportswriter.
Ring LardnerMy initial reaction is that I do not believe it is true. But the integrity of the sport is bigger than anyone playing it and if someone undermines the integrity of a sport then I find that offensive. (on Rusedski's drug trial)
Andrew CastleBaseball was the one sport my dad shared with us as kids.
Marvin BushI'm looking to bring a high-performance, high-priced sports car into the market [the cars name? The Delorean]
John DeLoreanSuch 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 MartynMy 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 BrownHe will never be dull to strangers who joins in sport with his own family.
Titus Maccius PlautusSport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man.
Pope Pius XIIThere is something for everyone in sports.
Arnold BeisserI played in a golf charity match to raise money for a boy injured in a car accident. I had to drive like a lunatic to get here. [Ironically explaining why he was late for a talksport show]
Ray HoughtonMan is a sporting as well as a praying animal.
Oliver Wendell HolmesEngland is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.
Benjamin DisraeliSport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.
Avery BrundageSports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.
Jack Kent CookeFor me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinBodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerVery little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
P J O'RourkeNot every age is fit for childish sports.
Titus Maccius PlautusThe Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?
Eric IdleIt doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is. [On the effects of alcohol]
Marguerite DurasOscar is probably going to change the world of Paralympic sport in ways that we never imagined [on Oscar Pistorius]
Tanni Grey ThompsonPlaying 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
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