Quotes about Sport

Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.

I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.

The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business.

In the same way I have always regarded boxing as a first-class sport to encourage in the Young Men's Christian Association.

Art is lost in pop "art" as sport is lost in professional "sport"—which is an oxymoron of the strongest kind. Absurdity reigns, and confusion makes it look good.

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

This sport is crazy, it moves along and we all have a short memory. No one realizes when fighters are out. They just remember their last fight and how they look now.

We play a sport. It's a game. At the end of the day, that's all it is, is a game. It doesn't make you any better or any worse than anybody else. So by winning a game, you're no better. By losing a game, you're no worse. I think by keeping that mentality, it really keeps things in perspective for me to treat everybody the same.

Who can understand his errors? It was the sport, which as it were tickled our hearts, that we beguiled those who little thought what we were doing, and much disliked it.

Golf: A game in which you claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of youth

I don't like injustice. We're living in a time where, whether it's the Internet or tabloids, being sh-tty has become a sport. We're just grown-up bullies.