Quotes About Sport

Wrestling is different than MMA or boxing or really any other contact sport in that you can't really draw along an opponent.

I am a passionate opponent of fox hunting because the fox runs in fear of its life over a prolonged period, hearing the hounds getting closer and closer. Barbarous does not even begin to describe such a sport.

At the end of the day, that's just boxing - it's a different sport altogether. But when I finish fighting for the UFC, there are so many different options I have. Boxing is another option I could take.

I am the face and ambassador of sambo. The organization I'm working is trying really hard to make sambo a sport on the Olympian level.

It's not about the organization, it's about the fighter. So let's put everyone to fight so we are going to know who is the best. It's the next step for the sport. MMA deserves that and all the organizations and athletes deserve that.

I would call this sport as an organized street-fight. Think of SFL as a Bollywood movie where you will get great entertainment with some action.

Once I found out that track and field was an organized sport, the era I followed more closely was that of Maurice Greene and Michael Johnson.

MMA is a sport. We go out here and we do battle. Everybody has family, friends, they train really hard.

Sportswriting is fascinating - descriptions of the opponents and the details of an event in which someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. Life is much longer and more complicated, and the outcomes are less clear-cut.

I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.

I used to do kickboxing, because I liked the cute outfits.

The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation.

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

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.

A truly intelligent person is not one who can simply spout words and numbers; it is someone who can react 'intelligently' to all the opportunities, simulations and problems provided by the environment. Real intelligence means engaging your brain with every aspect of life – you play sport with you brain; you relate to others brain-to-brain;

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.

Mama shook her head. "No, they don't kill for food. They kill for sport and for the thrill of the chase.

Jack had a great respect for a man who could show good sport with a pack of hounds. Dillon obviously knew a great deal about hunting, and about horses; yet it was strange he should mind so little about the noise his dogs made, for the cry of a tuneful pack

Girevoy sport, on the other hand, is a working class sport. Kettlebells are cheap, no platform is required, and almost anyone can master the skills in a short period of time from a book or a video.

Not a single sport develops our muscular strength and bodies as well as kettlebell athletics," wrote Ludvig Chaplinskiy in the Russian magazine Hercules in 1913.

Ludvig Chaplinskiy wrote in the Russian magazine Hercules in 1913, "Kettlebell lifting more than any other sport relies on nerve strength; its sensible practice strengthens the nervous system, mindless practice destroys it.

Not a single sport develops our muscular strength and bodies as well as kettlebell athletics," reported Russian magazine Hercules in 1913.

I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.

Prizefighting ain't the noblest of arts and I ain't the noblest artist