George Will Quotes About Competition

Quotes about: Competition

• There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.

  George Will

  Sports, Competition, Auras

• Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition.

  George Will

  Sports, Integrity, Play

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

• In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a problem of illicit chemical enhancement. Steroids threaten the health of the 5 percent to 7 percent of players proved, by a mild regime of scheduled tests, to be using them. Steroids also endanger emulative young people. Further, steroids subvert what baseball is selling - fair competition. And they strike at the pleasure of engagement with America's team sport with the longest history.

  George Will

  Sports, Baseball, Team

  George Will (2008). “One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation”, p.329, Crown Forum

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