Sport Quotes

Business is a combination of war and sport. (André Maurois)
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. View quote
George Orwell
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. View quote
Tiger Woods
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book. View quote
Joe Frazier
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. View quote
James Anthony Froude
The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose. View quote
Ernie Banks
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? View quote
Jane Austen
Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. View quote
Frank Bruno
In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses. View quote
Russell Baker
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity. (George Bernard Shaw)
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. View quote
Julia Child
All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens. View quote
Willa Cather
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life. View quote
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me. View quote
Fred Perry
A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to. View quote
Rahul Dravid
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. View quote
William Shakespeare
A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport. View quote
Pierre de Coubertin
Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense! View quote
George Carlin
In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained. View quote
Robert Graves
Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain. View quote
William Cowper
Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport - would never do it and don't like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it's fine. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense. View quote
Lewis Mumford