Sports Quotes
Capriati Jennifer
I don't care about being No. 1, but I'm ready and willing
to give battle, and that's what sport is all about.
Cowper William 1731-1800
The Task (of hunting)
Detested sport,
That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
Graves Robert 1895-1985
Occupation: Writer
In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.
Horace 65-8 BC
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath
begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.
Maurois André 1885-1967
Business is a combination of war and sport.
Orwell George 1903-1950
International sport is war without shooting.
Orwell George 1903-1950
Shooting an Elephant
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with
hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, and disregard of all the rules.
Roxborough Henry
Sport is one area where no participant is worried about another's race, religion
or wealth: and where the only concern is ‘Have you come to play?'
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Henry IV, Part 1
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
But when they seldom come, they wished to
come.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
King Lear
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport.
Somerville William 1675-1742
The Chase
The chase, the sport of kings;
Image of war, without its guilt.
Surtees R.S. 1805-1864
Handley Cross
‘Unting is all that's worth living for ... it's the sport of kings, the image of war
without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty per cent of its danger.Broun Heywood 1888-1939
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Mencken H.L. 1880-1956
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
Warren Earl 1891-1974
The sports page recods people's accomplishments, the
front page usually records nothing but man's failures.