Quotes about Sport
Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.
- Henry David Thoreau
I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.
- Psalm 69:11
I think one thing Liberty finds frustrating is a lot of this business is conducted through the media. That's something they're not used to with American sport. There's that constant comparison of America sport and franchises verses Formula One - American sport works in America, it doesn't work globally.
- Christian Horner
The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business.
- LeBron James
In the same way I have always regarded boxing as a first-class sport to encourage in the Young Men's Christian Association.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Art is lost in pop "art" as sport is lost in professional "sport"—which is an oxymoron of the strongest kind. Absurdity reigns, and confusion makes it look good.
- Dallas Willard
Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
- Samuel Johnson
Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.
- William Faulkner
In my opinion, sport teaches valuable lessons in extremely rewarding circumstances.
- Scott Moir
I feel like basketball is my outlet. Basketball is an opportunity for me to get all my emotions out.
- Baron Davis
This sport is crazy, it moves along and we all have a short memory. No one realizes when fighters are out. They just remember their last fight and how they look now.
- Joseph Benavidez
We play a sport. It's a game. At the end of the day, that's all it is, is a game. It doesn't make you any better or any worse than anybody else. So by winning a game, you're no better. By losing a game, you're no worse. I think by keeping that mentality, it really keeps things in perspective for me to treat everybody the same.
- Tim Tebow