I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me.
Fred PerryNot 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 MenottiWomen use their sexuality to promote all kinds of sports, so why not chess.
Maria ManakovaThis 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 SharapovaIt 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 DurasBut 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'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 McEnroeI am here to propose a toast to sportswriters. It's up to you whether you stand up or not.
Fred TruemanThe more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.
Paul FussellIt is a poor sport that is not worth a candle.
George HerbertI have recently taken up two new sports: roller skating and ankle spraining, in that order. I am getting quite good at both.
Miles KingtonWhen 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 TatumEngland is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.
Benjamin DisraeliA 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 BermanAttacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.
Elizabeth BartonAirplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Al GoreHockey 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 WoodsMy successes in the Army are owing in great measure to the manly sports of Great Britain, and one sport above all - cricket.
Arthur Wellesley WellingtonLondon has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid]
Bradley WigginsThere isn't anything on earth as depressing as an old sportswriter.
Ring LardnerIt is a poor sport that is not worth the candle
George HerbertSports do not build character. They reveal it.
Haywood Hale BrounBaseball was the one sport my dad shared with us as kids.
Marvin BushSports beget tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels.
HoraceSuccess comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinBaseball is the only major sport that appears backward in a mirror.
George CarlinStart a lie and a truth together, like hare and hound: the lie will run fast and smooth, and no man will ever turn it aside; but at the truth most hands will fling a stone, and so hinder it for sport's sake, if they can.
OuidaThe fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
P G WodehouseI totally wanted to fix up my health and to challenge myself. I've never attempted to keep fit or do any sports at all.
Lisa MafiaSports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.
Jack Kent CookeI love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
Yevgeny YevtushenkoThe whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
Ted DexterFor I must go where lazy Peace
Will hide her drowsy head;
And, for the sport of kings, increase
The number of the dead.
William DavenantThe 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 MalcolmHave the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody
JuvenalBoxing 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 EppsIt'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 EcclestoneA country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinMy 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 CastleI don't watch movies a lot. I watch sporting events. Because you can never tell how they're going to end.
Michael DouglasMy favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.
Gordon BrownThe best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
Jean-Claude KillyA country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
Pierre De CoubertinOne thing that rugby is generally is incredibly fair, and with it being a team sport no individual is bigger than the game itself
Jeremy GuscottIf you look like your passport photo you're too ill to travel.
Joe PasqualeSports broadcasters are the only reporters who describe past events in the future tense.
Burnett AndersonIf you spend a lot of time on sportsmanship, you're going to spend a lot of time losing.
Glenn DobbsMen are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
Lord ByronBoxing is an incredible sport and one of the oldest and most basic, and all the more prestigious for that.
Joe Frazier
Pick another category
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