Quotes About Sport

Running is the most elemental sport there is. We are genetically programmed to do it.

Fishin' for whales is a nice gentle sport as long as you don't catch any.

Arthur and I had had our differences, even our clashes, but I'd had a huge amount of respect for him as a man, a black man, and a positive force for world tennis. I realized too late that he was the greatest ambassador our sport had ever had, and I was determined to try to do better myself.

Tennis really is single combat, and it's exhausting to be a gladiator.

I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week.

He liked the atmosphere of skiing - the fire-warmed lodge, the view of a snowy mountainside, the clean air, the drinks - but not the sport itself.

Such a pretty lad," she said. "I remember your brother very well. Good sport in that one.

Farweather was the one who made an extreme sport of plunging through space under her own impulse, sliding about shipless in the void-and practice counts. I wished I believed in the convenient entertainment myth that just really wanting it more than the other guy was enough to insure success.

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

A lot of players are concerned about their ranking; I think you've got to just enjoy the sport and have fun.

I don't see many people as heroes and, though I love sport, I believe athletes rarely deserve that praise.

It's a rarity in this sport that you really get a guy that's not a good person. I think we've found that in Matt Hughes.

Boxing is a dying sport, really. Years ago, the world heavyweight champion could be said to have reached the highest pinnacle of sport. Even in this country, boxers were heroes. Think of Henry Cooper and Frank Bruno.

It's difficult to identify why two cultures will react differently to the same sport.

My first reaction to any fight opportunity is yes, just out of instincts. That's why I'm in this sport.

I think there is a big difference between real people and Internet people. Real life people understand that this is a sport.

As Culture Secretary, I realised how you can use sport to do so many other good things for society.

I like to lean on making wrestling the most believable, realistic form of entertainment as possible for the most part.

I gotta respect our sport, my division, and the guys that are fighting in it. That's what I gotta do.

I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.

The whole sport, I feel like for years has done a great job trying to recognize the heroes amongst the country.

Usually, the great thing about cycling is that anybody can watch it; it's very accessible.

There's a great thing about amateur sport: it is purer. And the athletes are not open to so much pressure with amateur sport.

This is a great thing, to make a living as a professional golfer, isn't it?