Quotes About Sport

I feel like if they added a few weight classes it wouldn't change up the dynamics of the sport. You can still have champions and it wouldn't be like boxing. Boxing got messed up, because they've got so many belts, so many unifications. It's crazy.

MMA is pretty tough on your mind because it's a sport that's not just about winning. You really want to win bad, but it's tough when you lose. You get beaten. And it really messes with your ego, because nobody wants to get beaten by other people physically. It's not just a game. You get beaten physically.

I love the way this sport has evolved and impacted every segment of society. Now you have cross training and weight training in every sport and from middle school kids to senior citizens.

I didn't really realize that I could make it into a career until midway through the 'Ultimate Fighter' show when I started beating guys who had been training in the sport for a really long time.

Football, I thought, would be a tough sport to make a living in. There is no minor league. You either make it to the NFL or you don't.

Eventually the invaders saw something they wanted in this territory, too. Not fish for food, but fish for sport. Not living, breathing trees, but timber. Not earth, but minerals. It was a clash of values.

Live.....Laugh.....GOLF

great sport, during their few idle hours, of sitting in the house's green-shuttered windows and watching the doings at headquarters through opera glasses, then offering commentary to passing police officials.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.

Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage. By witnessing physical grace, the soul comes to understand and love beauty. Seeing people compete courageously and fairly helps emancipate the individual by educating his passions.

Sport does not just build character, it reveals it.

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.

I made the New Zealand team, won medals around the world. I thought, 'I'm blessed. I've got a good talent.' I had no idea, though, how good I might be. But I loved the sport.

Why is the N.F.L. so popular? The N.F.L. grew in the comfort zone after World War II. People had money and time. A popular American sport got bigger.

Angling is an innocent cruelty.

The disabled people that do sport, they don't think about what they don't have but try to get better with what they do have. That is the same for me.

Tuna pasta bake is one of my favourites, its quick and easy to make when I'm busy training.

There is a risk women's football becomes the most popular spectator sport that fans tune into every four years but are not interested in parting with their money to watch the same players on their doorstep.

Sport is increasingly played according to the tune, and rules, of those with the biggest bucks, whether their practices be legal or illegal.

Someone has to take the bad role and as long as people are tuning in and watching the sport that I love, I don't mind.

Now there are two or three teams who are very ethical in their outlook who have opened up the economic benefits and that is probably going to be a turning point in the sport.

Twelve years is a long time in any professional sport. I felt that that longevity speaks to something - and to the fact that I've earned a right to speak.