Quotes with sport

  • Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
  • On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.
  • The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.
  • 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.
  • All's fair in love and war and sport - even when you're fighting against your sister.
  • Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Cate Campbell All's fair in love and war and sport - even when you're fighting against your sister.
    Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • Anatoly Karpov Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.
    Anatoly Karpov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1951 - 1951)
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  • William Shakespeare Youth is full of sport,
    age's breath is short;
    youth is nimble,
    age is lame;
    Youth is hot and bold,
    age is weak and cold;
    Youth is wild, and age is tame.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carl Lewis 'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Andrew H. Malcolm A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone.
    Andrew H. Malcolm
     
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  • Bob Schieffer American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Bill Rodgers Anybody can be a runner... We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport.
    Bill Rodgers
    American marathon athlete (1947 - )
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  • Caity Lotz As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
    Caity Lotz
    American actress, dancer and singer (1986 - )
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  • William Shakespeare As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Burgess Owens At the end of the day, there are risks; there's no question - in any sport, any activity.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Bob Greene Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
    Bob Greene
    American journalist and author (1947 - )
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  • Bobby Charlton Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.
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  • Bobby Rahal Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway Bull fighting is not a sport. It was never supposed to be. It is a tragedy.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • André Maurois Business is a combination of war and sport.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Charles Lamb Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Garry Kasparov Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • Bonnie Langford Dance never really goes away; it just reforms and reinvents, and it's become more athletic with new connection to fitness and sport. Dance used to have this exclusivity, but not any more.
    Bonnie Langford
    English actress, dancer and singer (1964 - )
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