My 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 CastleSport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinThe 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 BrundageSport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
Avery BrundageI love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
Yevgeny YevtushenkoI 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 HoughtonIf they [England] do well without me in India, then good on 'em. I'm a sports fan. Whatever's good for England is good for me.
Darren GoughThere is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter.
René MaheuA little love-in before the main event can do you more good than a rub-down with the Sporting Life.
John ContehWe'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 CostasPlaying 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 WilkinsonThere 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 GreatbatchRodeoing 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 LindermanLondon has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid]
Bradley WigginsA country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
Pierre De CoubertinFor many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.
Ian BothamI am here to propose a toast to sportswriters. It's up to you whether you stand up or not.
Fred TruemanSure, winning isn't everything. It's the only thing. (Sports Illustrated, 1955)
Henry SandersCards are war, in disguise of a sport
Charles LambThere is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis'.
Arthur AsheOlympic figure skating - a sport where competitors are dressed as dinner mints.
Jere LongmanDon't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green. No glass of ours was ever raised to toast The Queen.
Seamus HeaneyAll sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinI never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to sex.
David LodgeThere are good reasons for doing this now, because of the change to technology, the fact that we will have to pay for biometric passports and the ID card part of it is a very small additional cost [on introducing ID cards]
Tony BlairIt 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 DurasWhat on earth has this synchronized swimming got to do with anything, let alone sport?
Frank KeatingThe 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 ChattertonA country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinIf you look like your passport photo you're too ill to travel.
Joe PasqualeSport is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
Neil SimonUnlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
Lewis H LaphamWhen badminton was accepted into the Barcelona Olympic Games it showed that there was an acceptance of my sport internationally.
Rhonda CatorWe 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 BlakeWhen drugs are used in any sport it is not a great day for that sport and this not a great day for cricket
Andrew StraussThe understanding of being is clarified by sport.
Howard SlusherIce skating - with its meticulously preordinated choreography, fanciful dress and movements that consists of wandering around in apparently pointless, ever decreasing circles - is closer to Trooping the colour than to a sport.
Julie BurchillHave the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody
JuvenalThe fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
P G WodehouseMan is a sporting as well as a praying animal.
Oliver Wendell HolmesThe only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
Douglas William JerroldBut 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 ShakespeareThere is something for everyone in sports.
Arnold BeisserWhen a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard ShawTheatre sports is the best improv training period.
Wayne BradyI don't take sports seriously although I like that Scottish thing where they throw the poles. I'm down with that.
Peter BuckSport is a preserver of life.
HippocratesBoxing is the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight.
Omar EppsI agree with women's rugby. At an early age, I think girls are better and more skilful players than boys. Whether the game goes professional or not is a difficult one because obviously you need a support base, and the support base in Wales at the moment is generally for male rugby. But I've got no issue with women playing rugby - it's a great sport that should be played by everyone.
Gareth ThomasWomen's tennis is the leader in women's sports. Equal prize money is a no-brainer
Billie Jean King
Pick another category
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