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I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me.
Fred Perry

Not 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 Menotti

Women use their sexuality to promote all kinds of sports, so why not chess.
Maria Manakova

This 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 Sharapova

It 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 Duras

But 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 Shakespeare

There'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 McEnroe

I am here to propose a toast to sportswriters. It's up to you whether you stand up or not.
Fred Trueman

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.
Paul Fussell

It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle.
George Herbert

I have recently taken up two new sports: roller skating and ankle spraining, in that order. I am getting quite good at both.
Miles Kington

When 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 Tatum

England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.
Benjamin Disraeli

A little love-in before the main event can do you more good than a rub-down with the Sporting Life.
John Conteh

It 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 Berman

Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned.
Elizabeth Barton

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Al Gore

Hockey 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 Woods

My successes in the Army are owing in great measure to the manly sports of Great Britain, and one sport above all - cricket.
Arthur Wellesley Wellington

London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid]
Bradley Wiggins

There isn't anything on earth as depressing as an old sportswriter.
Ring Lardner

It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle
George Herbert

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Haywood Hale Broun

Baseball was the one sport my dad shared with us as kids.
Marvin Bush

Sports beget tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels.
Horace

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
Baron Pierre De Coubertin

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backward in a mirror.
George Carlin

Start 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.
Ouida

The 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

I 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 Mafia

Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.
Jack Kent Cooke

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
Ted Dexter

For I must go where lazy Peace
Will hide her drowsy head;
And, for the sport of kings, increase
The number of the dead.
William Davenant

The 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 Malcolm

Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody
Juvenal

Boxing 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 Epps

It'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 Ecclestone

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
Baron Pierre De Coubertin

My 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 Castle

I don't watch movies a lot. I watch sporting events. Because you can never tell how they're going to end.
Michael Douglas

My 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 Brown

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
Jean-Claude Killy

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
Pierre De Coubertin

One thing that rugby is generally is incredibly fair, and with it being a team sport no individual is bigger than the game itself
Jeremy Guscott

If you look like your passport photo you're too ill to travel.
Joe Pasquale

Sports broadcasters are the only reporters who describe past events in the future tense.
Burnett Anderson

If you spend a lot of time on sportsmanship, you're going to spend a lot of time losing.
Glenn Dobbs

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
Lord Byron

Boxing 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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