When drugs are used in any sport it is not a great day for that sport and this not a great day for cricket
Andrew StraussIt will send a clear message to those who would seek to exploit athletes: get out of the sports world now or go to jail.
Howard BermanPerhaps sport should accept sponsorship from the Mafia. They kill fewer people than smoking.
Alan HubbardThere'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 McEnroePlaying 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 WilkinsonA 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 HainThe 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 is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis'.
Arthur AsheSports broadcasters are the only reporters who describe past events in the future tense.
Burnett AndersonSport went hand in hand with science.
Alfred Lord TennysonThe 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 BrundageLondon 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 McGrathSport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.
Avery BrundageSport is life to the nth degree.
Neil OffenBy working with Stella McCartney I have been able to combine two things that are important to me - my sport and my style.
Maria KirilenkoThere 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 BarnesNot only do they know nothing about football, but if you were to shut them up in a room by themselves, they couldn't even write a letter to mother [on sports journalists]
Cesar MenottiThere is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter.
René MaheuWhen I was young, I did not see a single soccer match. Where I came from, football wasn't played. The sport simply did not exist...now some of us, the old guys, are beginning to understand how important the World Cup is for the entire world
George W BushI don't watch movies a lot. I watch sporting events. Because you can never tell how they're going to end.
Michael DouglasSport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
Avery BrundageAirplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Al GoreOf course a sports psychologist can help - it's certainly helped me [on Wayne Rooney]
David JamesSport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinOur 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 LowThere 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 CastleFor someone who's grown up in a sports-mad family and a bit of an Olympic junkie, I can't think of a better way to get fit. [on C4 show The Games]
Anna WalkerHockey 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 WoodsSports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.
Jack Kent CookeOlympic figure skating - a sport where competitors are dressed as dinner mints.
Jere LongmanSportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.
Herbert HooverAs I understand it, sport is har work for which you do not get paid.
Irvin S CobbSports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.
Noam ChomskyI 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 JohnsonWhen 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 HartSure, winning isn't everything. It's the only thing. (Sports Illustrated, 1955)
Henry SandersTransportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.
Robert HughesHave the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody
JuvenalA little love-in before the main event can do you more good than a rub-down with the Sporting Life.
John ContehSport is a preserver of life.
HippocratesFor me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinHe will never be dull to strangers who joins in sport with his own family.
Titus Maccius PlautusCards are war, in disguise of a sport
Charles LambThis decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon]
Maria SharapovaThe whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
Ted DexterThe 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 MalcolmThey 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 SchmidtWhen 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 TatumOf all the talking points which make international sport fascinating, selecting a team to represent the country surely takes pride of place.
E W Swanton
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