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
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