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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 Castle

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
Baron Pierre De Coubertin

The 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 Brundage

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
Avery Brundage

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I 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 Houghton

If 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 Gough

There is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter.
René Maheu

A little love-in before the main event can do you more good than a rub-down with the Sporting Life.
John Conteh

We'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 Costas

Playing 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 Wilkinson

There 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 Greatbatch

Rodeoing 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 Linderman

London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid]
Bradley Wiggins

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
Pierre De Coubertin

For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.
Ian Botham

I am here to propose a toast to sportswriters. It's up to you whether you stand up or not.
Fred Trueman

Sure, winning isn't everything. It's the only thing. (Sports Illustrated, 1955)
Henry Sanders

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport
Charles Lamb

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis'.
Arthur Ashe

Olympic figure skating - a sport where competitors are dressed as dinner mints.
Jere Longman

Don'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 Heaney

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
Baron Pierre De Coubertin

I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to sex.
David Lodge

There 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 Blair

It 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 Duras

What on earth has this synchronized swimming got to do with anything, let alone sport?
Frank Keating

The 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 Chatterton

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
Baron Pierre De Coubertin

If you look like your passport photo you're too ill to travel.
Joe Pasquale

Sport is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
Neil Simon

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
Lewis H Lapham

When badminton was accepted into the Barcelona Olympic Games it showed that there was an acceptance of my sport internationally.
Rhonda Cator

We 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 Blake

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 Strauss

The understanding of being is clarified by sport.
Howard Slusher

Ice 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 Burchill

Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody
Juvenal

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
P G Wodehouse

Man is a sporting as well as a praying animal.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
Douglas William Jerrold

But 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 Shakespeare

There is something for everyone in sports.
Arnold Beisser

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw

Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
Wayne Brady

I don't take sports seriously although I like that Scottish thing where they throw the poles. I'm down with that.
Peter Buck

Sport is a preserver of life.
Hippocrates

Boxing 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 Epps

I 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 Thomas

Women's tennis is the leader in women's sports. Equal prize money is a no-brainer
Billie Jean King



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