Quotes About Sport

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplay- ers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards.

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

Langlauf – cross-country skiing – at that; which isn't even proper skiing, it's just a way of tricking people into what's really exercise).

It takes a lot of hard work and dedication just like any pro sport. Especially for beach volleyball you don't have to be tall or as fast as other sports. You just have to have the skills.

The secondary purpose of sport is to distract people from reality, it is the new drug of our generation.

Sport-das ist eine Sache. Aber sportlich das ist jemand, der die Spielregeln beachtet.

Bred for one purpose only, to die in man's sport.

That's not hunting," I wrote, "that's just shooting.

In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.

It was one of those cold, wet winter days when if you get stuck watching sport or an old movie, you can miss that short period between dawn and dusk altogether.

Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.

The exhilaration of flying is too keen, the pleasure too great, for it to be neglected as a sport.

We had taken up aeronautics merely as a sport. We reluctantly entered upon the scientific side of it.

When he learned that we were interested in flying as a sport, and not with any expectation of recovering the money we were expending on it, he gave us much encouragement. At

It was passing strange, I thought, that these two grave strong men should be so gentle over a creature who never cared how she wounded, mocked, flouted, or harmed either of them, to please her sport or charm her vanity

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.

The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars' worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport.

Golf is essentially an exercise in masochism conducted out-of-doors.

Vodka at night. Pickle juice in the morning (the best thing for a hangover). Throwing some kettlebells around between this hangover and the next one. A Russian's day well spent. The 'kettlebell' or girya is a cast iron weight which looks like a basketball with a suitcase handle. It is an old Russian toy. As the 1986 Soviet Weightlifting Yearbook put it, "It is hard to find a sport that has deeper roots in the

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.