It is naive to think that sport is above politics, that any kind of level playing field exists, or that sport allows the world to put its problems on hold.
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Amy Bass
Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
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George F. Will
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Bertolt Brecht
Skate to where the puck is going and not to where it's been.
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Wayne Gretzsky
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
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H. L. Mencken
More Quotes By H. L. Mencken
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore.
It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish.
A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.
