Sports

Quotes about Sport.

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• He's long ago given up hope of finding a country anywhere in the world where it was safe to tell total strangers that he had no interest in sports whatsoever.
  • Greg Egan, Zendegi (2010), Ch. 3

• By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd,
  The sports of children satisfy the child.
  • Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller (1764), line 153.

• It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.
  • George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651).

• Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.
  • The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport.
  • Horace, Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC), I. 14. 36.

• Many more people in the world are concerned with sports than with human rights.
  • Huntington, Samuel Phillips (1997). The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order. Simon & Schuster. pp. 197. ISBN 9780684844411. Retrieved on 2011-03-25. 

• When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport, than she makes me?
  • Michel de Montaigne, Apology far Raimond de Sebonde; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 746.

• Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
  • George Orwell, 1945-12-14. "The Sporting Spirit", Tribune.

• If all the year were playing holidays;
  to sport would be as tedious as work;
  • William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (1597), Act I, Scene II

• For neither if there were a good boxer among the people, nor if there were a pentathlete or wrestling, nor again if there were someome swift of foot - which is most honoured of all men's deed of strength - would for this reason a city be better governed.
  • Xenophanes
  • Lesher, James H. (1992). Xenophanes of Colophon: fragments : a text and translation with a commentary. University of Toronto Press Incorporated. pp. 15. ISBN 0-8020-8508-3. Retrieved on 2011-03-25.