Olympic figure skating - a sport where competitors are dressed as dinner mints.
Jere LongmanThe goddess of sport is not Beauty but Victory, a jealous goddess who demands an absolute homage.
R K ElliottThe 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 MalcolmThere is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis'.
Arthur AsheDon'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 HeaneyIn a sport where 'love' means nothing, it's not surprising that etiquette means everything [on tennis]
Mike TysonWhen 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 TatumMen are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
Lord ByronHe mistrusts anyone who reads past the sports pages of the tabloids [on Mickey Stewart]
Peter RoebuckAmazing, this is absolutely amazing - the year I have had has been amazing [on Sports personality award]
Zara PhillipsPlaying 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 fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organize play, the spirit of play.
Simon GrayThe Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.
Alvin DarkThis 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 SharapovaOf course a sports psychologist can help - it's certainly helped me [on Wayne Rooney]
David JamesIt'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 EcclestoneOscar is probably going to change the world of Paralympic sport in ways that we never imagined [on Oscar Pistorius]
Tanni Grey ThompsonSport is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
Neil SimonMy 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 CastleUnlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
Lewis H LaphamOur 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 LowSports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.
Jack Kent CookeWomen's tennis is the leader in women's sports. Equal prize money is a no-brainer
Billie Jean KingThe Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
Ken CalvertI love prawns and calamari at the moment.
I'd love to eat them on my sofa, transported to a little trattoria.
Clair-Hope AshiteyAs a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
Lynn DaviesSport is life to the nth degree.
Neil OffenEven now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.
Sergei BubkaPeople in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.
Martina NavratilovaThey 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 SchmidtTop class sport needs cut and thrust: Test matches, played over five days, ebb and flow.
Jonathan AgnewMother... just because I wear trackies and play sports does not make me a lesbian! (Bend It Like Beckham)
Keira KnightleyI have recently taken up two new sports: roller skating and ankle spraining, in that order. I am getting quite good at both.
Miles KingtonMan 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 JeffersonI never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to sex.
David LodgeThere'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 McEnroeA healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems.
Timothy H BishopThere should be no place whatsoever in any sport for people who take these performance enhancing drugs
Asif IqbalAttacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.
Elizabeth BartonSport is a preserver of life.
HippocratesMy successes in the Army are owing in great measure to the manly sports of Great Britain, and one sport above all - cricket.
Arthur Wellesley WellingtonSport went hand in hand with science.
Alfred Lord TennysonWhy they call a fellow that keeps losing all the time a 'good sports' gets one.
Charles E HughesAll sports are games of inches.
Dick RitgerWe'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 CostasAirplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Al GoreBoxing is an incredible sport and one of the oldest and most basic, and all the more prestigious for that.
Joe FrazierI didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me.
Fred PerryDeer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns.
W S GilbertThe more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.
Paul Fussell
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