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Quotes About Sport

Cricket is battle and service and sport and art.
~ Unknown
Sport is about achievements. Art is to be touch and touch others in a personal level.
~ Donnie Burns
I've always been interested in the sport even as a young kid. I liked the sport of martial arts because I loved anything that involved contact, conflict or collision.
~ Unknown
I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport. I would put regular flying in the category of an art or machine-type thing.
~ John Travolta
There is no more graceful and healthful accomplishment for a lady than fly-fishing, and there is no reason why a lady should not in every respect, rival a gentleman in the gentle art.
~ Unknown
The X-Caddis is excellent
~ Unknown
It is like Swinburne sat down on his soul's darkest night and designed an organized sport.
~ David Foster Wallace
Golf. A golf man. Is my tone communicating the contempt? Billiards on a big table, Jim. A bodiless game of spasmodic flailing and flying sod. A quote unquote sport. Anal rage and checkered berets.
~ David Foster Wallace
Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?
~ William Shakespeare
Though this knave came something saucily into this world before he was sent for, yet was is mother Fair; there was good sport at his making, and the Whoreson must be acknowledged.
~ William Shakespeare
But come what may, I do adore thee so That danger shall seem sport, and I will go!
~ William Shakespeare
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose
~ Winston S. Churchill
Golf Like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.
~ Winston S. Churchill
As a sport, most track coaches ranked ultras somewhere between competitive eating and recreational S&M.
~ Christopher McDougall
It's not normal, like chasing a little white ball and whacking it into eighteen different holes.
~ Unknown
If tomorrow we decided only to desist from killing and causing suffering for sport and entertainment, the world would be significantly better for animals. Even this we have failed to achieve.
~ Unknown
Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds
~ Lisa Kleypas
I worked at a Sport Chek in Vancouver, only so I could get the discount off snowboard gear. But I hated the job so much, I quit before I got my discount.
~ Missy Peregrym
Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.
~ Sunil Gavaskar
When you see players coming into the new season with injuries and already carrying strapping on various parts of their bodies in January, then it only serves to highlight how hard the sport is and how demanding the schedule can be. There really isn't an off-season and that's the nature of the beast.
~ Tim Henman
Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that.
~ Shannon Miller
My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport.
~ Gabrielle Reece
Shooting of course has certain challenges, especially in terms of safety aspects to be sorted and venues are far away from the scene of action.
~ Abhinav Bindra
In my opinion, the most stagnant thing in our sport is our schedule and our venues that we go to.
~ Kevin Harvick