Sport Quotes - page 36

As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence. (Will Self)
I don't really go mountain biking per se, like a proper sport. View quote
Chris Cornell
The judge smiled. Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But the trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all. View quote
Cormac McCarthy
I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family. View quote
Dorothy Allison
You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport. View quote
Garry Kasparov
I am lucky, ... that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball. View quote
Garry Kasparov
I don't think the sport is any more dangerous than it's ever been. View quote
Shaun White
If skating got into the Olympics, I would be tempted to hold off on shredding for a year and just skate, to make that my new goal. In that sport, I'm still the underdog. View quote
Shaun White
I've got to stand up for the sport. View quote
Shaun White
I love the sport of snowboarding so much, but I just don't want to talk about it, ever. View quote
Shaun White
True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened. (Yevgeny Yevtushenko)
You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport. View quote
Elayne Boosler
You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport. View quote
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further. View quote
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Hockey's my favorite sport. View quote
Denis Leary
I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport. View quote
James Taylor
The Epicureans especially made sport with the paltry Poetry that came from Delphos. View quote
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write. View quote
John Irving
Why do I continue getting daily pliability? Because I want to play football for as long as possible. I love my sport. I love my teammates. I love what i do... to me, sustained peak performance means doing what i want to do, and what I love to do, for as long as I can. View quote
Tom Brady
It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up. View quote
Neil Peart
The advance of human knowledge has become - at long last - a vividly enjoyable spectator sport! And a growing movement toward amateur science shows there is room for participants at every level. (David Brin)
I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit. View quote
Floyd Mayweather
Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances. View quote
Floyd Mayweather
You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever. View quote
Floyd Mayweather
There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy. View quote
Floyd Mayweather