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 LindermanWhen 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 TatumI'm looking to bring a high-performance, high-priced sports car into the market [the cars name? The Delorean]
John DeLoreanNot 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 MenottiA sporting hero has been born in South Africa, and the country needs somebody young, fresh, enthusiastic and committed. This is a guy who you know will climb Everest for South Africa. [on Graeme Smith]
Ali BacherWhen a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard ShawBeing an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.
Russell MarkI always turn to the sports section first... the front page has nothing but man's failures.
Earl WarrenThe 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 ChattertonSport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man.
Pope Pius XIIWhen drugs are used in any sport it is not a great day for that sport and this not a great day for cricket
Andrew StraussTransportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.
Robert HughesWhen 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 Bush'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
Johnny WilkinsonBaseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.
Ty CobbYour sex shouldn't matter when it comes to sport. If you put in the effort to train hard, whether you are male or female, you deserve the rewards.
Rain MakoIt is a poor sport that is not worth the candle
George HerbertIf 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 KorbutI've got a kid six years old. He likes sports, but I definitely won't let him pitch. There would be too many things against him.
Gaylord PerryTop class sport needs cut and thrust: Test matches, played over five days, ebb and flow.
Jonathan AgnewFor many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.
Ian BothamFor 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 WalkerGreat sport has intellectual beauty.
R CarlisleThis sport is just as much about your teammates as you and your individual performance.
Mia HammThe fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
P G WodehouseHave the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody
JuvenalWhat on earth has this synchronized swimming got to do with anything, let alone sport?
Frank KeatingSports do not build character. They reveal it.
Haywood Hale BrounThe only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
Douglas William JerroldThe more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.
Paul FussellThe whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
Ted DexterThere should be no place whatsoever in any sport for people who take these performance enhancing drugs
Asif IqbalPeople in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.
Martina NavratilovaSport is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
Neil SimonThere 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 GreatbatchSporting Lisbon in their green and white hoops, looking like a team of zebras.
Peter JonesSports broadcasters are the only reporters who describe past events in the future tense.
Burnett AndersonWhen people come together, go to each other's country, and watch a conflict being played out on the field of sport, as opposed to the field of battle... then why can't that same spirit, that same philosophy, infect other aspects of relations? [Hoping India and Pakistan would develop their relationship off the pitch]
Colin PowellTheatre sports is the best improv training period.
Wayne BradyAttacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.
Elizabeth BartonThe goddess of sport is not Beauty but Victory, a jealous goddess who demands an absolute homage.
R K ElliottAs an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.
Nadia ComaneciI keep getting these extraordinary letters from American sports stars saying: 'I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now you're single I want to meet you for a drink.
Liz HurleyBaseball is a sport that gives you the highest highs and lows, there is nothing like a great game to get the adrenaline flowing and make you feel alive.
Dwight GoodenAs a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
Lynn DaviesA little love-in before the main event can do you more good than a rub-down with the Sporting Life.
John ContehIt 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 BermanBoxing 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 EppsEngland is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.
Benjamin DisraeliI totally wanted to fix up my health and to challenge myself. I've never attempted to keep fit or do any sports at all.
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