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Sports Quotes (page 11)

Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon; Not the poet, in the moment. Fancy lightens in his e'e, Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture, That thy presence gi'es to me. Robert Burns
Jonathan Franzen quote: "Success at sports is the province of the almost empty head."
Success at sports is the province of the almost empty head. Jonathan Franzen
Yet it is the masculine values that prevail. Speaking crudely, football and sport are ‘important’; the worship of fashion, the buying of clothes ‘trivial’. And these values are inevitably transferred from life to fiction. This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. A scene in a battle-field is more important than a scene in a shop — everywhere and much more subtly the... Virginia Woolf
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made he (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one...that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other... Mark Twain
His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours. Arthur Conan Doyle
Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed...It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith...the saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Nicholas Sparks
The "war" is being fought along the line between sin and righteousness in every family. It is being fought along the line between truth and falsehood in every school... Between justice and injustice in every legislature... Between integrity and corruption in every office... Between love and hate in every ethnic group... Between pride and humility in every sport... Between the beautiful and the ugly in every art... Between right doctrine and wrong doctrine in every church... Between sloth and... John Piper
Alistair Cooke quote: "Every sport pretends to be literature. . ."
Every sport pretends to be literature. . . Alistair Cooke
Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour. Than languish in his slow-chapt power. Let us roll all our strength and all. Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife. Thorough the iron gates of life: Thus, though we cannot make our sun. Stand still, yet we will make him run. Andrew Marvell
Ernest Hemingway quote: "There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and..."
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. Ernest Hemingway
Neal Stephenson quote: "Software development, like professional sports, has a way of..."
Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit. Neal Stephenson
James Patterson quote: "They aren't the brightest crayons in the box-Max(saving the..."
They aren't the brightest crayons in the box-Max(saving the world and other extreme sports) James Patterson
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I..."
Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jonathan Franzen quote: "Deploring other people--their lack of perfection--had always..."
Deploring other people--their lack of perfection--had always been our sport. Jonathan Franzen
I came home one night, some month ago, and I went to the closet in my bedroom...and a moth ate my sports jacket. He was laying on the floor, nauseous, y'know. Woody Allen

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