Oscar is probably going to change the world of Paralympic sport in ways that we never imagined [on Oscar Pistorius]
Tanni Grey ThompsonBaseball was the one sport my dad shared with us as kids.
Marvin BushI 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 play a sport, you have two things in mind. One is to get into the Hall of Fame and the other is to go to heaven when you die.
Lee TrevinoThe Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?
Eric IdleA 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 BacherSports broadcasters are the only reporters who describe past events in the future tense.
Burnett AndersonHe mistrusts anyone who reads past the sports pages of the tabloids [on Mickey Stewart]
Peter RoebuckI am here to propose a toast to sportswriters. It's up to you whether you stand up or not.
Fred TruemanWhat on earth has this synchronized swimming got to do with anything, let alone sport?
Frank KeatingIf you spend a lot of time on sportsmanship, you're going to spend a lot of time losing.
Glenn DobbsThe understanding of being is clarified by sport.
Howard SlusherThere is no doubt that to be an elite athlete in whatever sport it is that you do, you need to have that certain X-factor that sets you apart from the rest.
Dante HallThe sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
Avery BrundageI 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 PhelpsWhen 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 TatumSports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.
Jack Kent CookeMother... just because I wear trackies and play sports does not make me a lesbian! (Bend It Like Beckham)
Keira KnightleySport is a preserver of life.
HippocratesSport is the bloom and glow of perfect health.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo receive it from Ian, my boyhood hero, makes it all the more sweet [on winning sports personality of the year, 2005]
Andrew FlintoffA country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
Pierre De CoubertinBlack 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 RockSporting Lisbon in their green and white hoops, looking like a team of zebras.
Peter JonesI played in a golf charity match to raise money for a boy injured in a car accident. I had to drive like a lunatic to get here. [Ironically explaining why he was late for a talksport show]
Ray HoughtonBoxing is an incredible sport and one of the oldest and most basic, and all the more prestigious for that.
Joe FrazierI 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 HurleyMan is a sporting as well as a praying animal.
Oliver Wendell HolmesNot every age is fit for childish sports.
Titus Maccius PlautusFor 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 WalkerThere is something for everyone in sports.
Arnold BeisserThe Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.
Alvin DarkI'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 HingisThe only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
Douglas William JerroldSports beget tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels.
HoraceWomen's tennis is the leader in women's sports. Equal prize money is a no-brainer
Billie Jean KingBritain never had a greater sporting ambassador. [on Bobby Charlton]
Jimmy GreavesMen are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
Lord ByronThe 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 went hand in hand with science.
Alfred Lord TennysonIf 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'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 JacksonOlympic figure skating - a sport where competitors are dressed as dinner mints.
Jere LongmanFishing is the king of sports, there is nothing as relaxing as a day fishing and nothing as satisfying as landing a big catch.
Rex HuntSport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
Avery BrundageSports do not build character. They reveal it.
Haywood Hale BrounBut 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 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 MalcolmTheatre sports is the best improv training period.
Wayne BradyOur 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 Low
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