Mother... just because I wear trackies and play sports does not make me a lesbian! (Bend It Like Beckham)
Keira KnightleyI don't watch movies a lot. I watch sporting events. Because you can never tell how they're going to end.
Michael DouglasAll sports for all people.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinAs a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
Lynn DaviesAmazing, this is absolutely amazing - the year I have had has been amazing [on Sports personality award]
Zara PhillipsThere should be no place whatsoever in any sport for people who take these performance enhancing drugs
Asif IqbalTo receive it from Ian, my boyhood hero, makes it all the more sweet [on winning sports personality of the year, 2005]
Andrew FlintoffThe sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
Avery BrundageI don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
Richard NixonTransportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.
Robert HughesIf there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.
Olga KorbutIt 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 DurasRodeoing 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 LindermanA 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.
Peter HainI 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 is more energy locked up in sources around the solar system than we could ever reasonably expect to need, the problem would be transporting them back to earth and using them in a cost efficient manner.
Wilson GreatbatchDeer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns.
W S GilbertThere 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 CoubertinBeing an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.
Russell MarkFor many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.
Ian BothamThe Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?
Eric IdleAttacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.
Elizabeth BartonThe only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
Douglas William JerroldIt'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 EcclestoneOne of the strange things about winning gold in this sport is that people know you more in other countries than in your own.
Bob HayesLondon has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid]
Bradley WigginsSure, winning isn't everything. It's the only thing. (Sports Illustrated, 1955)
Henry SandersI'm afraid I'm not really interested in starting off someone's career and trying to turn a nobody into a someone. All my expertise, and all my recent knowledge, lies at the top end of the sport.
Colin JacksonI 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 HoughtonBritain never had a greater sporting ambassador. [on Bobby Charlton]
Jimmy GreavesThey 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 SchmidtThis sport is just as much about your teammates as you and your individual performance.
Mia HammHe'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 HewittThere 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 BarnesI'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 GrayLondon 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 McGrathThe 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 BrundageStart a lie and a truth together, like hare and hound: the lie will run fast and smooth, and no man will ever turn it aside; but at the truth most hands will fling a stone, and so hinder it for sport's sake, if they can.
OuidaAll sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinIt is a poor sport that is not worth a candle.
George HerbertMan once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.
To James Smith, 1822.
Thomas JeffersonEngland is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.
Benjamin DisraeliSport is a preserver of life.
HippocratesWhen you get a game like that I don't think there can be any other sport in the world that is quite as exciting.
Earl TatumBaseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.
Ty CobbSport is life to the nth degree.
Neil OffenWe all owe a little debt of gratitude for what he's done because he's transcended the sport to become an international superstar, more so than any other tennis player over the last 20 years. [Agassi]
James BlakeMy 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 CastleI love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
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