Quotes About Sport

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

I remember reading about an NFL receiver who studies yoga so that his limber limbs won't be surprised when they're slammed into strange positions as he plays his full-contact sport. Well, in case you haven't noticed, life is a full-contact sport, at least for the soul.

It is a rare thing for me to meet anyone who takes an intelligent interest in such matters. People can find time for such trivialities as sport or society, and yet the beetles are overlooked.

I want to write rage but all that comes is sadness. We have been sad long enough to make this earth either weep or grow fertile. I am an anachronism, a sport, like the bee that was never meant to fly. Science said so. I am not supposed to exist. I carry death around in my body like a condemnation. But I do live. The bee flies. There must be some way to integrate death into living, neither ignoring it nor giving in to it.

orders the roof of the shelter to be thrown open and so sees the cranes, he bids his attendants fetch such gerfalcons take the cranes in full view while the Great Khan remains all the while on his couch. And this affords him great sport and recreation.

Snowboarding! I love it! Some of the best places to snowboard are Telluride and Park Cities, Utah.

I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is.

I love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.

My intent is not to write histories, but only lives. For the noblest deeds do not always show men's virtues and vices; but oftentimes a light occasion, a word, or some sport, makes men's natural dispositions and manners appear more plain than the famous battles won wherein are slain ten thousand men, or the great armies, or cities won by siege or assault.

They called it "a disgusting exhibition of calculated cruelty," as if boxing were supposed to be anything else

She agreed with Mark Twain that golf was a "good walk spoiled.

I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.

Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.

the pankration, a no-holds-barred martial art event akin to today's kickboxing or perhaps a combination of karate and judo, in which everything was allowed, except for biting, eye-gouging, and scratching

It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.

There are greater issues in life than sport, and the greatest of these is loyalty to the great laws of the soul.

By 1998, more than a million people were engaged in windsurfing, and a large fraction of the boards sold incorporated the user-developed innovations for the high-performance sport.

windsurfing, and a large fraction of the boards sold incorporated the user-developed innovations for the high-performance sport. The user-centered innovation

than a million people were engaged in windsurfing, and a large fraction of the boards sold incorporated the user-developed innovations for the high-performance sport.

And what was sport, underneath, but a kind of sanitized, ritualized violence?

What was sport but a thin veneer over the factional fighting it had replaced—ritualized violence, bloody entertainment?

Being a seasoned Londoner, Martin gave the body the "London once-over" - a quick glance to determine whether this was a drunk, a crazy or a human being in distress. The fact that it was entirely possible for someone to be all three simultaneously is why good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like BASE jumping or crocodile wrestling.

good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.

When a golfer has completed his left-hand grip, the V formed by the thumb and forefinger should point to his right eye.