Quotes about sport

Give up your attachment to comfortable ways of living - show yourself in the gymnasium (gymnos = 'naked'), prove that you are not indifferent to the difference between perfect and imperfect, demonstrate to us that achievement - excellence, arete, virtu - has not remained a foreign word to you, admit that you have motives for new endeavours! Above all: only grant the suspicion that sport is a pastime for the most stupid as much space as it deserves, do not misuse it as a pretext to drift further

Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.

Skate to where the puck is going and not to where it's been.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

You can't think and hit at the same time.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners only survivors.

Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people - which is why horses are admitted to race tracks at the age of two and jockeys before they are old enough to shave.

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.

It you watch a game it's fun. If you play it it's recreation. If you work at it it's golf.

Winning can be defined as the science of being totally prepared.

Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

When you win nothing hurts.

Let's win this one for the Gipper.

Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.

It is in games that many men discover their paradise.

International sport is war without shooting.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Every time you win you're reborn when you lose you die a little.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm you'll be fired with enthusiasm.

Sport is one area where no participant is worried about another's race religion or wealth: and where the only concern is 'Have you come to play?'

Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player.

Catching a fly ball is a pleasure but knowing what to do with it is a business.

Trying to get a fast ball past Hank Aaron is like trying to get the sun past a rooster.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

A sportsman is a man who every now and then simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he's cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big enough.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Hockey captures the essence of the Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold hockey is the dance of life and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.

The game isn't over until it's over.

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet.

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

Citius altius fortius. (Swifter higher stronger.)

Well God is certainly getting an earful tonight.

Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.

Knute Rockne liked 'bad losers.' He said 'good losers' lose too often.

Ninety per cent of this game is half-mental.

I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.

When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

The Greatest” is a bite-your-tongue-book. Ultimately a tragic tale it is also immensely uplifting and easily the best footballer biography I have ever read.

Parenting is no sport for perfectionists.

Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.

Love is a contact sport you were born to win.

OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2... priceless.

The sunrise was the most amazing part of the day. The quiet of the block seemed even more silent when I watched the light make its way effortlessly into the world. Its serenity bathed itself in the rose colored light above bleeding into the sky. The road was vulnerable. The pink and the orange seeped onto the street and lit up my path, just for me. I saw it in front of my feet and it pulled me forward, my footsteps hitting the gravel. I wanted to run into it, to dive feet first and plunge into t

Running is an effort to escape from comfort zone.

Traditional angling is a mindset. So,have you set your mind?

while you play bowling with one ball you will be late because untill come in that ball it's need time so you need more than one ball in order to defeat the whole army .

Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.

The sports pages are men's pages, although they are not presented as such. /.../ On foreign fields, the men win their trophies, or lose their honour, doing battle on the nation's behalf. The readers, mainly men, are invited to see these male exploits in terms of the whole homeland, and, thus, men's concerns are presented as if defining the whole national honour.The parallel between sport and warfare seems obvious...

It is naive to think that sport is above politics, that any kind of level playing field exists, or that sport allows the world to put its problems on hold.

As in diamonds so in batting, perfection requires flawlessness and nowhere is a batting imperfection more quickly recognised than in the dropped catch. For this reason any innings worthy of consideration deserves to have all its flaws studied to establish whether or not it is the genuine gem or just masquerading as one under the glitter of big hitting or weight of runs.

The best game ever played was in Monday 3/21/2016, 2 games were played for 40 minutes class sport and in both I win and I and my friend we were going on the 3 game, but unfortunately we didn't finished it. But from here it can be see that I'm the winner!

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

Acceptance of the danger is of the essence for playing a quality sport.

He had won, easily. This was something else he could do, and do well, and his Dad had been there to witness his success.

When it comes to carving out a unique niche in the over-congested world of football ‘personalities,’ Jürgen Norbert Klopp has it down.

Angling is a sport, so sporting ethics should apply.

Smile, tip your traditional hat, and enjoy your time by the water.

She transcends her sport, which is what any sport needs...And she does it while smiling the whole time. It's kind of a joke, but then again it's not, especially if you're a male pro trailing in her wake. To have this woman in the middle of such a suffer fest out there crushing people and smiling all the way...

In interviews with riders that I've read and in conversations that I've had with them, the same thing always comes up: the best part was the suffering. In Amsterdam I once trained with a Canadian rider who was living in Holland. A notorious creampuff: in the sterile art of track racing he was Canadian champion in at least six disciplines, but when it came to toughing it out on the road he didn't have the character.The sky turned black, the water in the ditch rippled, a heavy storm broke loose. T

Every great thing that has been accomplished, and is yet to be accomplished, starts with a dream.

Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score

In a spornographic age it’s no longer enough for the male body to be presented to us by consumerism as merely attractive, or desiring to be desired, as it was in the early days of nakedly narcissistic male metrosexuality. This masculine coquettish-ness, pleasing as it is, no longer offers an intense enough image. Or provokes enough lust. It’s just not very shocking or arousing any more. In fact, it’s just too… normal. To get our attention these days the sporting male body has to promise us nothi

I’ve often said a man’s character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall. So no matter how great the setback, how severe the failure, you never give up.

To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires thinking.

Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires a lot of thinking.

While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running.

People used to recognize it as mood.Science has revealed it as cannabinoids.When you feel sad, just do long running.Then you will know that even mood can be governed.

Well, with that filly in my line of vision blushing like a virgin, something in me was bound to stand at attention. And my walking legs were occupied.

Today, with the way things are in all circles, in soccer, in society, in politics, where it seems anything goes, a gesture of honesty goes down well.

Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.

Put your Body First!

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.

Do you understand what I'm saying?"shouted Moist. "You can't just go around killing people!""Why Not? You Do." The golem lowered his arm."What?" snapped Moist. "I do not! Who told you that?""I Worked It Out. You Have Killed Two Point Three Three Eight People," said the golem calmly."I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr Pump. I may be–– all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!""No, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defr

Philosophy is not a spectator sport.

Just remember, the difference between being good versus being great is just a few points, inches, or seconds.

Walk while you can.

Two hours later, a noise resembling a hippo rolling along a corrugated iron roof shook Jane from her doze and Rob bursts through the living room door.

Why couldn't Rachel be a little more specific about the type of person she was? Goodness knew; if she were a hippie I'd talk to her about her drug experiences, the zodiac, tarot cards. If she were left-wing I'd look miserable, hate Greece, and eat baked beans straight from the tin. If she were the sporty type I'd play her at... chess and backgammon and things.

As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the players themselves'. This is football.

Maybe exercise and sport can be something we do for ourselves. For fun! For Happiness! For clear thinking! Because physical activity should be something integral to our being alive. And it is the essential part that really concerns us here, not the bit about how many millimetres it might shave off your inside thigh measurements.

Surely we want to get to a point where women can be strong and powerful and not sexy. Or only sexy when they feel like it, not as a requirement to getting media coverage or being valued.

I think too often we forget that girls can like sport; we are not biologically programmed to detest it, we are - in the main - conditioned against it. But shouldn’t we try to change that?

I can only run the rate in which my heart beats.

Mind sees world from various perspectives when body does long-distance running.

I am not designed to come secondor third, I am designedto win.

Men spend their time in following a ball or a hare it is the pleasure even of kings.

Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. That’s hardly athletic. Phallic and sexy, yes. But hardly athletic.

George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.

I can’t believe I’ve missed this sport. It’s all about fingering holes and caressing balls.

Tennis is the loneliest sport

Health is the greatest strength.