Quotes About Sports

As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.

First is the worst, second is the same, last is the best in any old game.

Born as the raising to the nth power of that initial (and rational) waste that is sports recreation, sports chatter is the glorification of Waste, and therefore the maximum point of Consumption. On it and in it the consumer civilization man actually consumes himself (and every possibility of thematizing and judging the enforced consumption to which his is invited and subjected).

In a certain sense I could agree with the Futurists that war is the only hygiene of the world, except for one little correction: It would be, if only volunteers were allowed to wage it. Unfortunately war also involves the reluctant, and therefore it is morally inferior to spectator sports.

While it pays to be light and lean in all endurance sports, there is thankfully no single, ideal body type for any specific endurance sport. The variety you see in the physiques of world-class cyclists, runners, and other endurance athletes can be surprising.

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

so often the appearance of lunacy in sports isn't lunacy at all. As outlandish as sports conduct might seem, it is rooted in basic human psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive tendency.

I like all the adventure sports but I like to do them in a safe way.

You watch pro ball and those guys spend so much time with their hands on each other's rear ends, you'd think they were feeling for diamonds or something.

Mullahs have been making an issue of field hockey lately, because you have to run and bend. And

Far from marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins.

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'.

As an ersatz opening batsman, Tavaré did not so much score runs as smuggle them out by stealth.

Richards double-century

Ppl act like I said some [expletive] thats just down right sexist and rude ... str8 men are attracted to women RIGHT? Men are 80 percent of sportviewers RIGHT? So lets name a few women sports that still attract the men viewers ... #Tennis, omg they were short skirts like female ... #trackandfield, short tights and crop tops, so we can see abs ...

Boys are rewarded for playing games where they line up by height and then run into walls. Perhaps I'm making that up--or perhaps you should do a Google search for "Guy Runs into Wall for Fun.

La Presidenta había sido muy gráfica explicando con metáforas deportivas por qué iban a descansar de los hombres por una temporada. Dijo que era como cuando en el béisbol había jugadores que se quedaban en el dog out. Las mujeres necesitaban que los hombres se quedaran en él temporalmente, porque aquel partido lo tenían que pichar, batear, cachar y correr las mujeres.

The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

When somebody tells you nothing is impossible, ask him to dribble a football.

Badminton joke