A sportsman is a man who every now and then simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he's cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big enough.
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 Stephen Leacock
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something...
Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it
When actors begin to think it is time for a change. They are not fitted for it.
The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.
