Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.
Elizabeth BartonBodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerVery little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
P J O'RourkeFishing is the king of sports, there is nothing as relaxing as a day fishing and nothing as satisfying as landing a big catch.
Rex HuntBut 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 ShakespeareThe Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.
Alvin DarkI 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 MafiaNot every age is fit for childish sports.
Titus Maccius PlautusBlood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.
Bernard InghamThe only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
Douglas William JerroldI have recently taken up two new sports: roller skating and ankle spraining, in that order. I am getting quite good at both.
Miles KingtonSport went hand in hand with science.
Alfred Lord TennysonCards are war, in disguise of a sport
Charles LambSports broadcasters are the only reporters who describe past events in the future tense.
Burnett AndersonThere should be no place whatsoever in any sport for people who take these performance enhancing drugs
Asif IqbalThe first time I caught a wave standing up on a board. It was such an exhilarating moment. It was like being accepted into the men's club as it is such a male-dominated sport and a fundamental way of life in Newcastle.
Jennifer HawkinsBritain never had a greater sporting ambassador. [on Bobby Charlton]
Jimmy GreavesThe goddess of sport is not Beauty but Victory, a jealous goddess who demands an absolute homage.
R K ElliottBritish ferries have stopped transporting live animals to the Continent. This has made it very difficult for England fans to get to away matches.
Jo BrandIt is a poor sport that is not worth a candle.
George HerbertDeer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns.
W S GilbertI love prawns and calamari at the moment.
I'd love to eat them on my sofa, transported to a little trattoria.
Clair-Hope AshiteyThe fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
P G WodehouseThere 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 BlairHe mistrusts anyone who reads past the sports pages of the tabloids [on Mickey Stewart]
Peter RoebuckWhen badminton was accepted into the Barcelona Olympic Games it showed that there was an acceptance of my sport internationally.
Rhonda CatorAirplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Al GoreMan 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 JeffersonRodeoing 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 LindermanSport is the bloom and glow of perfect health.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMother... just because I wear trackies and play sports does not make me a lesbian! (Bend It Like Beckham)
Keira Knightley'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 WilkinsonAbsolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.
Roy ClarkYour 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 MakoBlack people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. We own this shit. Basketball, baseball, football, golf, tennis, and as soon as they make a heated hockey rink we'll take that shit too.
Chris RockI 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 ThomasSport is life to the nth degree.
Neil OffenSport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.
Avery BrundageSport, it doesn't matter whether you win or lose... It's how drunk you get.
Homer SimpsonThe Nemesis of excess in athletics is professionalism, which is the death of all true sport.
E N GardinerIt's virtually a different sport, a different game... in the World Cup when they fancy themselves against you and you fancy yourself against them.
Michael OwenAs a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.
Lynn DaviesAs I understand it, sport is har work for which you do not get paid.
Irvin S CobbA 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 HammI like nice normal basic sports like football and golf. But then you look at Darren Gough and you realize that you might be up to the challenge. Darren made it legit, he made me realize that you could step out of your comfort zone, and have fun and see what you could do
Mark RamprakashSport is a preserver of life.
HippocratesAs an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.
Nadia ComaneciThe sports of the people afford an index to the character of the nation.
Frederick HackwoodWho bids me Hope, and in that charming word
Has peace and transport to my soul restor'd.
Lord George Lyttleton
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