Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

• In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sports, Boxing, Connections

  Joyce Carol Oates (1987). “On boxing”, Dolphin Books

• Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sports, America, Boxing

  Joyce Carol Oates (1987). “On boxing”, Dolphin Books

• Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity, makes millionaires of them and watches them self-destruct?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sports, Athlete, Self

• Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sports, Hurt, Winning

• Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and ingenuity, are routinely entwined; the sport that evokes the most extreme reactions - loathing, revulsion, righteous indigation; a fierce and often inexplicable loyalty.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Loyalty, Sports, Boxing

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

• There are boxers possessed of such remarkable intuition, such uncanny prescience, one would think they were somehow recalling their fights, not fighting them as we watch.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sports, Fighting, Thinking

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “On Boxing”, p.9, Harper Collins

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