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Quotes About Sport

Golf isn't a sport, it's a game. I'm not saying it's not a difficult game, with lots of mental stuff. But it's not a sport like mine. Where is the combat, the intensity of what we do?
~ Conor McGregor
Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football. Or rather, not a football coach if we understand the sport is a spectacle or entertainment for those who watch it, either at home or live in the stadium.
~ Johan Cruijff
In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.
~ John Thorn
The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
~ Lord Byron
Playing sport has become very important today, since it can encourage young people to develop important values such as loyalty, perseverance, friendship, sharing and solidarity.
~ Pope John Paul I
We're a team, and just by the nature of our sport, we're always promoted together. I think we are definitely two different people with two different personalities, but we're always linked.
~ Misty May-Treanor
Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
~ Boris Becker
I always think street but train sport.
~ Conor McGregor
Playing the sport has taught me about teamwork and how to be a good team player, social skills and most importantly, dedication.
~ P. K. Subban
The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism.
~ David Icke
No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.
~ Tom Watson
The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.
~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.
~ Andy Murray
Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.
~ Erma Bombeck
I am still young. I have a lot of time. And if someone breaks my records in the future, I won't cry. That's sport.
~ Noureddine Morceli
It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.
~ Tim Winton
You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.
~ Elayne Boosler
Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
~ Manny Pacquiao
Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
~ Vince Lombardi
It is not a bad sport, but there's no place to go.
~ Glenn Curtiss
Racing has become more show time; we've got to have something new to create interest in the sport.
~ Richard Petty
I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.
~ Mark McGwire
I want to do my best to make the people happy. I play with my heart for the sport.
~ Pele
Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.
~ Fiona Wood