quotations about sports
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
attributed, American Auto Racing: The Milestones and Personalities of a Century of Speed
Yet the glory of the sports pages
Is but the worship of false idols and tempts him not
BILLY BRAGG
"God's Footballer"
Sport is linked with the technical world because sport itself is a technique. The enormous contrast between the athletes of Greece and those of Rome is well known. For the Greeks, physical exercise was an ethic for developing freely and harmoniously the form and strength of the human body. For the Romans, it was a technique for increasing the legionnaire's efficiency. The Roman conception prevails today.
JACQUES ELLUL
The Technological Society
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
BABE RUTH
attributed, Babe Ruth
If all the year were playing holidays;
to sport would be as tedious as work.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry IV
What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse.
TELUGU PROVERB
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
GORDIE HOWE
attributed, Blood & Ice
The score never interested me, only the game.
MAE WEST
The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West
My chief regret for the advance of life is that the infirmities of age compel me to renounce the enjoyment of field sports.
SIR ROBERT WALPOLE
attributed, Day's Collacon
"Did you go in for games?" I asked.
"No," Oscar replied smiling, "I never liked to kick or be kicked."
OSCAR WILDE
Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.
GEORGE HERBERT
Jacula Prudentum
Sometimes, we forget that sports are just sports. It's not brain surgery. It's not a war where people fight for something so ferociously that they risk their own life. It's not science and the fight to cure cancer. Yet, Ray Allen deciding to sign a contract to play basketball with a rival team has filled so many people with an irrational hate and fury they do things like freeze him out from a reunion to celebrate a title he was crucial in helping them win. It causes a fan base in Oklahoma City to lose their minds. Sweet little old ladies, young children, fathers, mothers, lawyers, doctors, etc. wearing cupcake shirts, making homemade signs, yelling and screaming vitriol even burning his jersey to berate, bully and express their anger for Kevin Durant for simply choosing to leave his employer for another employer which he had every right to do. It is completely and utterly mindbogglingly flabbergasting to me.
KAYTE CHRISTENSEN
"Sometimes We Forget Sports Are Just Sports", CBS Sacramento, July 30, 2017
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
ERMA BOMBECK
attributed, The Ultimate Book of Quotations
Sport in this country has always been unique and led a powerful relationship with our society. It has often been represented as a means of which to showcase our strong cultural identity and has acted as a source of national pride for us to celebrate our global recognition.
PETER NAGLE
"The Irish Sporting Landscape Is Growing And We Need To Embrace It", Pundit Arena, July 31, 2017
I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
EARL WARREN
attributed, Sporting Wit: Athletic Wisecracks and Champion Comebacks
The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.
ANONYMOUS
Sporting Wit: Athletic Wisecracks and Champion Comebacks
Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope, where there was once only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination.
NELSON MANDELA
remarks at Laureus World Sports Awards, 2000
Apparently he was convinced that exercise on the wooden horse and flying rings would cure my scholarly stoop, and make a kind of grenadier of me. If so, he was in error, for I remain more or less Bible-backed to this day, and am often mistaken for a Talmudist. All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all its forms, but also for every variety of calisthenics, so that I still begrudge the trifling exertion needed to climb in and out of a bathtub.
H. L. MENCKEN
Heathen Days: Mencken's Autobiography: 1890-1936
The problem with winter sports is that -- follow me closely here -- they generally take place in winter.
ANONYMOUS
Sporting Wit: Athletic Wisecracks and Champion Comebacks
The ecosystem that is behind eSports bears a stark resemblance to that of traditional sports, and in terms of viewership they are quickly catching up to them. Brands such as the shaving products giant Gillette and the US fast-foot chain Arby's are among the sponsors that one wouldn't immediately associate with gaming, but are now taking the plunge into this growth market. Wherever there are sports, there will always be eSports, and US campuses are just the latest to follow this trend.
FABIO SCHLOSSER VILA
"In North America, eSports are taking the college route", DW, July 27, 2017