Sports Quotes - Page 33

• Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.

  John Milton

  Laughter, Nymphs, And Love

  John Milton, John Hunter (1864). “Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c”, p.59

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• Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

  John Milton

  Thinking, Hair, Mind

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 64

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• You see, in sports you have so many things that aren't expected. There's so much uncertainty. So when players find themselves in a situation where management has a great deal of integrity and they can depend on my word or anybody else's word in the organization, they feel secure. And if the players feel secure, they don't want to leave here. And if they don't want to leave here, they're going to do everything they can on the court to stay here.

  Red Auerbach

  Integrity, Player, Organization

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• I don't like injustice. We're living in a time where, whether it's the Internet or tabloids, being sh-tty has become a sport. We're just grown-up bullies.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Bully, Tabloids, Injustice

  "Jennifer Aniston in September's Glamour: "If You're Not Happy, You Can Become Happy. Happiness Is a Choice."". "Glamour" Interview, www.glamour.com. July 29, 2013.

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• I've called Chicago home for nearly 25 years. It's a city of broad shoulders and big hearts and bold dreams; a city of legendary sports figures, legendary sports venues, and legendary sports fans.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Heart, Home

  "NPR Skips Over Conservative/GOP Critique of Obama Olympics Bid". www.newsbusters.org. October 3, 2009.

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• The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with a stick by suggesting linkages between the sport and deep issues of morality, parenthood, history, lost innocence, gentleness, and so on, seemingly ad infinitum . (The effort reeks of silliness because baseball is profound all by itself and needs no excuses; people who don't know this are not fans and are therefore unreachable anyway.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Baseball, Writing, Men

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• If Tiger Woods slamming his club into the ground is the biggest worry wehave, our sport isinprettygood shape.

  Arnold Palmer

  Worry, Shapes, Clubs

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• Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.

  Philip Massinger

  Practice, Pleasure, Stew

  1626 Of the theatre. The Roman Actor, act1, sc.1.

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• The sport [football] is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel... [The National Football League] now needs a guardian, not a CEO.

  Frank Deford

  Football, League, Needs

  "Football Needs A Guardian, Not A CEO". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. July 09, 2013.

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• My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport.

  Camille Paglia

  Football, War, Parent

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.56, Vintage

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• Joe Louis and I were the first modern national sports figures who were black... But neither of us could do national advertising because the South wouldn't buy it. That was the social stigma we lived under.

  Jesse Owens

  Black, Firsts, Advertising

  The Tampa Tribune, April 1, 1980.

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• In the beginning the Gods made man, and fashioned the sky and the sea, And the earth's fair face for man's dwelling-place, and this was the Gods' decree: "Lo, We have given to man five wits: he discerneth folly and sin; He is swift to deride all the world outside, and blind to the world within: So that man may make sport and amuse Us, in battling for phrases or pelf, Now that each may know what forebodeth woe to his neighbor, and not to himself.

  James Branch Cabell

  Men, Sea, Sky

  James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, p.5, eBookIt.com

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• Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square.

  Pete Rose

  Thinking, Squares, Bats

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• Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it.

  Mike Tyson

  People, Boxing, Mind

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• I had been unaware that baseball was a Republican sport.

  Tim Robbins

  Baseball, Republican

  2003 In a letter to Dale Petroskey, president of the National BaseballHall of Fame, after his appearance there was cancelled when he criticized President GeorgeWBush, Apr.

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• The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.

  Garry Kasparov

  Chess, Violent, Torture

  "Transformation of the nerds: The modern chessplayer is a sleeker creature than the regressive slob of old. But can a game of such arcane difficulty really be glamorised into a global telly sport?" by Martin Amis, www.independent.co.uk. November 07, 1993.

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• The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.

  Boris Becker

  Eye, Thinking, Light

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• I guess the one thing I really learned from participating in sports was to just never say "no", never stop trying, and to always believe that you can do better than the next fellow. I tried to follow this throughout my life, but I always tried to be respectful about it.

  Bruce Bennett

  Believe, Trying, Next

  Interview with Marc Blau, 2004.

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• In representing criminal defendants - especially guilty ones - it is often necessary to take the offensive against the government: to put the government on trial for its misconduct. In law, as in sports, the best defense is often a good offense. The courtroom oath - to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth - is applicable only to witnesses... because the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole entire truth.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Government, Law, Justice

  "The Best Defense: The Courtroom Confrontations of America's Most Outspoken Lawyer of Last Resort - the Lawyer Who Won the Claus von Bulow Appeal". Book by Alan Dershowitz, 1982.

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• The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which he is subjected, but without knowing it trains himself for new compulsions. ... Training in sports makes of the individual an efficient piece of apparatus which is henceforth unacquainted with anything but the harsh joys of exploiting his body and winning.

  Jacques Ellul

  Mean, Winning, Play

  "The Technological Society" by Jacques Ellul, translated by John Wilkinson, (p. 383), 1964.

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• Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work proper so that he is at no time independent of one technique or another. In sport the citizen of the technical society finds the same spirit, criteria, morality, actions and objectives in short, all the technical laws and customs which he encounters in office or factory.

  Jacques Ellul

  Independent, Law, Office

  "The Technological Society". Book by Jacques Ellul, translated by John Wilkinson, p. 384, 1964.

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• In order to play some sports there's quite a big cost implication, whereas football is relatively cheap. All you need is a ball and a couple of jumpers to practise.

  Hope Powell

  Football, Couple, Order

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I think any sport needs to be accessible, affordable and practiced within the confines of a safe environment. Parents who have young children want to be able to leave their child somewhere which has good facilities and where they're going to be looked after.

  Hope Powell

  Children, Thinking, Safe Environment

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I think we need to be a bit more proactive. Let's not just talk about availability of sports, let's make the facilities more accessible to kids and make them want to come along.

  Hope Powell

  Kids, Thinking, Availability

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• To be a good sports journalist takes many things, but the main thing it takes is the ability to listen and follow your nose - see something, sense something and follow it.

  Steve Bunce

  Noses, Ability, Journalist

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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