Quotes about Sport

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Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. — Jonathan Haidt
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rul — George Orwell, The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell 1903-1950
George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a th — Gideon Haigh
Takin’ it to ISIS, man!” Blue Jacket thumped his chest twice, and I read the saying on his shirt: Turning ISIS into WASW — Jennifer Lane, Spiked
Another atrocity of summer is soccer. When the Euro Cup is on, it brings out the worst in people. It turns them into rav — Michelle Franklin
When the lenses in the eyes of a leader captures tomorrow, they don't print the passport size of it. They make enlargeme — Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
There's something about putting on a pair of skates, and getting out there and moving like nobody else can. Freedom is a — Randy Gardner
Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. That’s hardly athletic. Phallic and se — Jessica Park, Flat-Out Love
I'm thinking that I shouldn't have filed my nails last night. — Dara Torres
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 — Martin Amis, The Rachel Papers
Two hours later, a noise resembling a hippo rolling along a corrugated iron roof shook Jane from her doze and Rob bursts — Dougie Brimson, Wings of a Sparrow
We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Sports, Politics and Technology. All the same game. — George Shirk, Ookpik
Learn like an amateur. Train like a champion. Fight like a warrior. Triumph like a conqueror. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Men go to the ballpark with an assumed knowledge and interest, whereas women need to constantly demonstrate how much the — Stacey May Fowles, Baseball Life Advice
Just as we tell women today to vote, in honour of the suffragettes who campaigned for the right to do so, we owe it to t — Anna Kessel, Eat Sweat Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives
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 i — Anna Kessel, Eat Sweat Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives
I think too often we forget that girls can like sport; we are not biologically programmed to detest it, we are - in the — Anna Kessel, Eat Sweat Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives
Maybe exercise and sport can be something we do for ourselves. For fun! For Happiness! For clear thinking! Because physi — Anna Kessel, Eat Sweat Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives