Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.
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 Viktor Frankl
The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose one's own way.
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be what he will become in the next moment.
It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but...
Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.
