Quotes About Sport

Football's become a non-contact sport, and that's spoiled a lot of the fun for a lot of the people, including spectators.

To see the ball, to run after it, makes me the happiest man in the world

Not many fighters respect Chael Sonnen because he's in the wrong sport. He should be in pro-wrestling with a mouth like that.

This sport is crazy, it moves along and we all have a short memory. No one realizes when fighters are out. They just remember their last fight and how they look now.

If you have a love for sport, everybody knows the success of Madrid in the '60s, Ajax in the '70s, Bayern Munich, and so on.

Eighteen years doing this, my friend. Eighteen years - combat sport. I think you will not find this in history, I believe.

I give my heart for this sport. I give my leg for this sport. I give my time for my family for this sport.

I love NASCAR. I love the sport. I love the people. I believe I love it more than I ever have because of the people that have gone out of their way to tell me that they appreciate who I am and who MWR is.

The fact is that politics in Illinois is a blood sport. It's really rough. It's really nasty.

We are a global sport. I mean, golf is obviously played all around the world. But when you have your National Championship, of course, everybody in America is rooting for an American.

The heroes of war and the heroes of sport are indistinguishable in militarized societies. War is sold to a gullible public as a noble game... War is not a sport. It is about killing. It is dirty, messy, and deeply demoralizing. The pay is lousy. The working conditions are horrific. And those who come back from war are usually discarded.

In a sport that demands compulsion, sometimes the hardest task is having the confidence to rest.

For all he knew, he was the first person to climb this jutting, dangerous slab of rock. That was what he loved about this sport. When you were high above the world, anchored to a bit of stone by a piece of metal and your own courage, there was no outside world. No worries, no stresses, no memories of what you'd lost. There was only the extreme beauty, the solitude, and the risk. He loved that most of all: the risk. There was nothing like imminent danger to make a man know he was alive.

I want to contribute to sport and the community in a positive way.

Oh, aren't you just the rottenest wet blanket whoever spoiled a sport.

Well," continued Hilary, "it felt like somebody's face! You know when you play water polo, and you push a chap's face with your foot—" "What sort of water polo do you play, for heaven's sake?" asked Richard Cowes.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Gone golfin' — be back at dark thirty.

Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional levels that hurt so I've some other reference for extreme experience that isn't me shouting at my girlfriend or my mum. It's a way of controlling the uncontrollable.

There's nothing pretty about competitive eating. It might be uncouth, but it is fun, and it is lighthearted.

In hindsight, I'd love to be undefeated still, but that's not what this sport is.

In sport, the underdog does come out on top quite a bit.

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.