Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
P J O'RourkeTo receive it from Ian, my boyhood hero, makes it all the more sweet [on winning sports personality of the year, 2005]
Andrew FlintoffNot every age is fit for childish sports.
Titus Maccius PlautusWhen you are drumming and really feeling the music, the beat, it is like you are transported to a different place, where you feel so exhilirated and calm through your whole body.
Mickey HartBaseball 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 GoodenThis sport is just as much about your teammates as you and your individual performance.
Mia HammSport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
Avery BrundageIf you look like your passport photo you're too ill to travel.
Joe PasqualeWhat on earth has this synchronized swimming got to do with anything, let alone sport?
Frank KeatingBlack 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 RockThe Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?
Eric IdleFor many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.
Ian BothamBeing an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.
Russell MarkBoxing is an incredible sport and one of the oldest and most basic, and all the more prestigious for that.
Joe FrazierIt is a poor sport that is not worth the candle
George HerbertPeople in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.
Martina NavratilovaI don't watch movies a lot. I watch sporting events. Because you can never tell how they're going to end.
Michael DouglasSuccess comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
Baron Pierre De CoubertinIt is a poor sport that is not worth a candle.
George HerbertOur sports are totally different, if Lance Armstrong himself were to come and train with us he'd be completely exhausted after half and hour.
Joachim LowOne thing that rugby is generally is incredibly fair, and with it being a team sport no individual is bigger than the game itself
Jeremy GuscottI lost my passport. Then it turned up in someone else's bag [the day to day trauma of being in the Sugababes]
Keisha SugababesI 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 RamprakashThere is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter.
René MaheuBritish ferries have stopped transporting live animals to the Continent. This has made it very difficult for England fans to get to away matches.
Jo BrandThe Nemesis of excess in athletics is professionalism, which is the death of all true sport.
E N GardinerI love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
Yevgeny YevtushenkoAs an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.
Nadia ComaneciWhen 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 BushMan 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 JeffersonPerhaps sport should accept sponsorship from the Mafia. They kill fewer people than smoking.
Alan Hubbard'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 WilkinsonThe sports of the people afford an index to the character of the nation.
Frederick HackwoodSports do not build character. They reveal it.
Haywood Hale BrounBlood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.
Bernard InghamI'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-whittingstallTransportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.
Robert HughesAttacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.
Elizabeth BartonI 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 MenottiI 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 MafiaHe mistrusts anyone who reads past the sports pages of the tabloids [on Mickey Stewart]
Peter RoebuckThe Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
Ken CalvertAbsolutely 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 ClarkBaseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.
Ty CobbAirplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Al GoreI don't take sports seriously although I like that Scottish thing where they throw the poles. I'm down with that.
Peter BuckGreat sport has intellectual beauty.
R CarlisleThere 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 GreatbatchI'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 Jackson
Pick another category
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