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 Robert Lynd
In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.
If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.
The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.
Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.
A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.
