A 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 understanding of being is clarified by sport.
Howard SlusherCards are war, in disguise of a sport
Charles LambSport is the bloom and glow of perfect health.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.
Paul FussellRodeoing 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 LindermanIf 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 GoughThere is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter.
René MaheuA country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinThis sport is just as much about your teammates as you and your individual performance.
Mia HammMy successes in the Army are owing in great measure to the manly sports of Great Britain, and one sport above all - cricket.
Arthur Wellesley WellingtonBut 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 ShakespeareYour 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 a candle.
George HerbertAmazing, this is absolutely amazing - the year I have had has been amazing [on Sports personality award]
Zara PhillipsFor I must go where lazy Peace
Will hide her drowsy head;
And, for the sport of kings, increase
The number of the dead.
William DavenantBoxing 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 EppsThere 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 GreatbatchAll sports for all people.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinI have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honour for me. There's no better time to try this than now.
Michael PhelpsWomen's tennis is the leader in women's sports. Equal prize money is a no-brainer
Billie Jean KingWhen 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 BushWhen badminton was accepted into the Barcelona Olympic Games it showed that there was an acceptance of my sport internationally.
Rhonda CatorI don't take sports seriously although I like that Scottish thing where they throw the poles. I'm down with that.
Peter BuckThe thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it.
Jimmy GreavesPlaying 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 think Billie Jean King made huge inroads for women, but Andre made our sport cool, popular with the younger crowd, exciting.
Lindsay DavenportOne of the strange things about winning gold in this sport is that people know you more in other countries than in your own.
Bob HayesBaseball is the only major sport that appears backward in a mirror.
George CarlinThe 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'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 WilkinsonFor 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 WalkerI'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.
Martina HingisPeople in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.
Martina NavratilovaI'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 PerryA 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 BacherAll sports are games of inches.
Dick RitgerI'd seen it on top of the pops [son of my father]. The band were proper platform heeleed, tank top sporting, chest wig wearing glam rockers, and I'm pretty sure it was top of the charts for several weeks.
Hugh Fearnley-whittingstallIn a sport where 'love' means nothing, it's not surprising that etiquette means everything [on tennis]
Mike TysonThere is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis'.
Arthur AsheBeing an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.
Russell MarkA healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems.
Timothy H BishopSport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
Avery BrundageThe 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'm afraid I'm not really interested in starting off someone's career and trying to turn a nobody into a someone. All my expertise, and all my recent knowledge, lies at the top end of the sport.
Colin JacksonIce 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 BurchillMother... just because I wear trackies and play sports does not make me a lesbian! (Bend It Like Beckham)
Keira KnightleyAirplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Al GoreOne thing that rugby is generally is incredibly fair, and with it being a team sport no individual is bigger than the game itself
Jeremy GuscottBoxing is an incredible sport and one of the oldest and most basic, and all the more prestigious for that.
Joe Frazier
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