Vreun Sport Quotes

There is no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown. ~ William Shakespeare

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks. ~ Roger Bannister

Acceptance of the danger is of the essence for playing a quality sport. ~ Pawan Mishra

The real problem here is a massive elephant in the room: our own culture. Our social values, our media - so influential on impressionable young girls - that have been allowed, for millenia, to send out this powerful, alienating message about girls and sport: that sport is unfeminine, that sport makes you sweaty and muscular, that sport is swearing and violence, that sport is ugliness in a world where women's sole priority, value and focus should be beauty and becoming an object of desire. ~ Anna Kessel

Oh, aren't you just the rottenest wet blanket whoever spoiled a sport. ~ Catherynne M Valente

What's your sport?"
Trey held his chin up, looking very pleased with himself. "Football. A real man's sport. ~ Richelle Mead

By continually increasing the difficulty of the sport, we are discouraging younger athletes from starting and continuing in the sport. But most importantly, we are losing the beauty of our sport. We do not want gymnastics to lose what makes it so great - its artistic beauty. ~ Svetlana Boginskaya

The stupidest name for a sport is football. Why isn't it called tackleball? Real football is soccer. Soccer is the second-stupidest name for a sport, unless it was the name for female boxing. But female boxing is already called boxing, even though boxing should be the sport to see who can pack up stuff, like clothes, the fastest. Why isn't that a sport? If it was a sport, Ma would be a world-champion boxer. ~ Jason Reynolds

Football is the poetry of a motion. ~ Pubudu Lasal Dissanayake

Everybody thinks this is a tough man's sport. This is not a tough man's sport. This is a thinking man's sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport. ~ Mike Tyson

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. ~ Tiger Woods

The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it. ~ Jimmy Greaves

Paralympic sport and other disability sport can and should be celebrated in its own right. ~ Stella Young

He regarded conversation as sport, and Lily loved anyone who regarded anything in life as sport (except for actual sports). ~ Jennifer DuBois

Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one. ~ William Baldwin

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free. ~ Rita Mae Brown

Angling is a sport, so sporting ethics should apply. ~ Fennel Hudson

They might have beaten us at our national sport, but we managed to beat them at their national sport twice in the 20th century. [Replying to Kenneth Clarke, who said, "Isn't it terrible about losing to the Germans at our national sport?" when England lost to Germany in the 1990 FIFA World Cup Semi-final.] ~ Margaret Thatcher

Has anyone ever noticed that when ethnic Australians excel in sport they are heralded "Aussies"; but when something goes wrong they are thrown the "go back to where you came from" line? WAKE UP RACISTS. ~ Miya Yamanouchi

Sport climbing is a lot like sport f*#king. It's a lot of fun and requires no commitment. ~ Jim Bridwell

Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own. ~ Alistair Cooke

Bouldering isn't really a sport. It's a climbing activity with metaphysical, mystical, and philosophical overtones. -John Gill- ~ Jon Krakauer

Every popular zillion dollar sport has its share of personal scandals around the sport and its leadership. ~ Rachel Maddow

Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires a lot of thinking. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

When people say that a certain sport is not a sport - have them play that sport and see if they can do it. Golf is one of the hardest sports you've ever played. Bowling is all about concentration, it's all about focus, it's all about aim. ~ Dwyane Wade

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment. ~ Avery Brundage

Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. ~ Bion Of Borysthenes

For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport. ~ Fernando Alonso

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14 ... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write. ~ John Irving

I've always been interested in the sport even as a young kid. I liked the sport of martial arts because I loved anything that involved contact, conflict or collision. ~ Brad Tavares

Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level. ~ Ann Coulter

Life isn't a sport of instant success and miracle. ~ Kishore Bansal

Every sport evolves. Every sport gets bigger and more athletic, and you have to keep up. ~ Tiger Woods

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. ~ Paul Rodriguez

Sport is the big giveaway. Wherever sport plays a big part in people's lives you can be sure they're bored witless and just waiting to break up the furniture. ~ J.G. Ballard

Love is a contact sport you were born to win. ~ Suzette R. Hinton

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport. ~ Sachin Tendulkar

As far as my sport is concerned, my mission is to make it as big as it deserves to be. We've been growing, it's just not as noticeable. The NCAA picked beach volleyball up to be a championship sport, and it was the fastest test sport that's been adopted. That's a really big deal for our sport because that just means the USA system is going to have a feeder system from the college system. ~ Kerri Walsh

As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work. ~ Avery Brundage

I like playing sport, and I like doing physical stuff. I like hiking and I like climbing and I like playing sport. I do a lot. But I don't like the term 'exercising.' I feel like with sport, you're playing games. But with exercise, you're literally just trying to stop yourself from dying too young. It's weird. ~ James McAvoy

Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. That's hardly athletic. Phallic and sexy, yes. But hardly athletic. ~ Jessica Park

I think the sport of cycling is different then racing. The sport is just about being healthy and giving yourself an outlet so it's a easy sport to do and I think there are more and more women cycling everyday. ~ Robin Farina

When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level. ~ Vijender Singh

My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport. ~ Sherman Alexie

Running is a brutal and emotional sport. It's also a simple, primal sport. As humans, on a most basic level, we get hungry, we sleep, we yearn for love, we run. ~ Adharanand Finn

Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play. ~ Nikki Giovanni

Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport. ~ Lindsey Vonn

I don't know nothing about the sport. Just tune in August 28th and y'all find out how much I know about the sport. ~ James Toney

Sport teaches you about commitment and to dedicate yourself. Whether you make it to the top or not, sport gives you great skills that you can use in life. ~ Jenny Meadows

If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens. ~ Bert Sugar

I've been to fights, and I've seen them on television, but no, I would not call myself a fan of the sport, that particular sport, no. ~ Kim Basinger

For me, tennis is a sport. It's not a job, it's a sport. ~ Gael Monfils

I've always been a poor sport and a sore loser ... any other behavior might encourage a repeat performance ~ Josh Stern

I really enjoy doing what I do. I enjoy seeing live sport performed at the highest level. What's wonderful about sport is that it involves everybody, everybody has an opinion. ~ Jill Douglas

Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters. ~ Stephen Graham Jones

I have been listening to sport and watching sport on the BBC since I was a tiny boy. ~ Allan McNish

Polo really is a European sport. It's not really that popular in America. I'm not an expert on the sport, but it's fun to watch. ~ David Lauren

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life. ~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you. ~ Michael Moriarty

Sport, Madame la Comtesse, sport," asserted Lord Antony, with his jovial, loud and pleasant voice; "we are a nation of sportsmen, you know, and just now it is the fashion to pull the hare from between the teeth of the hound." "Ah, ~ Emmuska Orczy

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition. ~ Randeep Hooda

Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage. ~ George Will

Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically. ~ John Howard

Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport. ~ Dick Schaap

To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket. ~ Gagan Narang

War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use. ~ H.L. Mencken

Frank Lowy is an institution in Australian sport but judging by this decision he might be visiting a different kind of institution. He has brought the game into disrepute. The sport should not be run by dictators like him. ~ Clive Palmer

I don't wish to denigrate a sport that is enjoyed by millions, some of them awake and facing the right way, but it is an odd game. It is the only sport that incorporates meal breaks. It is the only sport that shares its name with an insect. It is the only sport in which spectators burn as many calories as players - more if they are moderately restless. It is the only competitive activity of any type, other than perhaps baking, in which you can dress in white from head to toe and be as clean at the end of the day as you were at the beginning. ~ Bill Bryson

It's one thing to have an eye for the sport, and it's another to have a feel for the sport. He has both. ~ Andre Ward

Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Some say we came God's purpose to fulfil -
Faith a poor purpose then, if so you will;
Sport for the heavenly huntsmen, others say, -
Sorry the sport, methinks, and poor the skill. ~ Richard Le Gallienne

If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it's the biggest sport in the world. ~ Pele

I think too often we forget that girls can like sport; we are not biologically programmed to detest it, we are - in the main - conditioned against it. But shouldn't we try to change that? ~ Anna Kessel

It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world. ~ Claudio Reyna

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win. ~ Ian Botham

Football is not a contact sport. Its a collision sport ~ Duffy Daugherty

George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'. ~ Gideon Haigh

Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE teachers, but the teachers who helped me in sport because they had an understanding of what you were going through. ~ Sebastian Coe

The majority of people who get in the sport of gymnastics do not go to the Olympics or get a Division 1 scholarship, but it doesn't mean that they can't get something positive from the sport. ~ Dominique Dawes

In all Games, there is always a tendency, particularly in the lead up to the Games when there isn't much sport to talk about, to write about things that are not sport. ~ Sebastian Coe

If a deep-wreck diver stays in the sport long enough, he will likely either come close to dying, watch another diver die, or die himself. There are times in this sport when it is difficult to say which of the three outcomes is worst. ~ Robert Kurson

I'm not much interested in sport just as sport. I wouldn't be interested in making a golf film or baseball or fishing film. ~ Robert Redford

I mean, if you pause over what it means at the age of 76 that Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, the happiest single day of her life was the day she made the first team at field hockey. Field hockey is a team sport. Field hockey is a knockabout - I mean, picture Allenswood, the swamps of north London. It's a messy sport. So she really enjoyed playing this rough-and-tumble sport in the mud of Allenswood, a team sport. And she was very competitive. And she loved being competitive, and she loved to win. And that, I think, was all of the things that Allenswood enabled. ~ Blanche Wiesen Cook

It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport. ~ Fridtjof Nansen

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

My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you. ~ Troy Polamalu

Sport-based video games occupy an odd space within the sphere of modern home entertainment. Reliably enjoyed by millions, the sport-based video game stands at what sometimes feels like an oblique angle from the larger medium, and in ways that can be hard to articulate. ~ Tom Bissell

I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport. ~ Bill Watterson

Tennis is a traditional game. A big sport like tennis does not need too many changes. The game has become too fast, there are hardly any long, interesting rallies these days. So maybe slowing down the courts could help. But you can't really stop a sport from evolving. ~ Bjorn Borg

I've always thought basketball was the best sport, although it wasn't the sport I was best at. It was just the most fun to watch. ~ Jack Nicholson

Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team. ~ Fernando Torres

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it. ~ Victoria Principal

When age is jocond it makes sport for death.
[When age is jocund, it makes sport for death.] ~ George Herbert

We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work. ~ Geoffrey Blainey

Skiing is my favorite sport, because, that's the only sport that is actually better to watch the worst the person is at it. "That guy won a gold medal in the Olympics" "Oh yeah, that's cool, i wanna watch the fat guy" "Come on dude, you can take that hill" ~ Demetri Martin

You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there. ~ Monica Seles

Maybe exercise and sport can be something we do for ourselves. For fun! For Happiness! For clear thinking! Because physical activity should be something integral to our being alive. And it is the essential part that really concerns us here, not the bit about how many millimetres it might shave off your inside thigh measurements. ~ Anna Kessel

There is no doubt about how hard it is to stay on top in any sport, but to do it in an individual sport for the majority of your career, it is not easy. ~ Pete Sampras