Britain never had a greater sporting ambassador. [on Bobby Charlton]
Jimmy GreavesIt 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 DurasOne thing that rugby is generally is incredibly fair, and with it being a team sport no individual is bigger than the game itself
Jeremy GuscottIce 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 BurchillTransportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.
Robert HughesA rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
Jimmy CannonThe 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 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 HoughtonThere 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 HallWomen's tennis is the leader in women's sports. Equal prize money is a no-brainer
Billie Jean KingI 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 RamprakashMan is a sporting as well as a praying animal.
Oliver Wendell HolmesAbsolutely 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 ClarkMother... just because I wear trackies and play sports does not make me a lesbian! (Bend It Like Beckham)
Keira KnightleyThere should be no place whatsoever in any sport for people who take these performance enhancing drugs
Asif IqbalThe more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.
Paul FussellThere'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 McEnroeSport is a preserver of life.
HippocratesA healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems.
Timothy H BishopOscar is probably going to change the world of Paralympic sport in ways that we never imagined [on Oscar Pistorius]
Tanni Grey ThompsonThe only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
Douglas William JerroldSport is the bloom and glow of perfect health.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe understanding of being is clarified by sport.
Howard SlusherOur 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 LowWhen 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 HartThe 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 MalcolmThe Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?
Eric IdleI don't watch movies a lot. I watch sporting events. Because you can never tell how they're going to end.
Michael DouglasNot 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 MenottiThere 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 GreatbatchMy successes in the Army are owing in great measure to the manly sports of Great Britain, and one sport above all - cricket.
Arthur Wellesley WellingtonI don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
Richard NixonBut 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 ShakespeareI'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 JacksonPeople in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.
Martina NavratilovaIf 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 KorbutWhat on earth has this synchronized swimming got to do with anything, let alone sport?
Frank KeatingIt 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 BermanDeer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns.
W S GilbertPlaying 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 have recently taken up two new sports: roller skating and ankle spraining, in that order. I am getting quite good at both.
Miles KingtonVolleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.
Gail ParentIt'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 EcclestoneI always turn to the sports section first... the front page has nothing but man's failures.
Earl WarrenI am here to propose a toast to sportswriters. It's up to you whether you stand up or not.
Fred TruemanBaseball was the one sport my dad shared with us as kids.
Marvin BushGreat sport has intellectual beauty.
R CarlisleAll sports are games of inches.
Dick RitgerOne of the strange things about winning gold in this sport is that people know you more in other countries than in your own.
Bob HayesSport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
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