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~ Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning. ~

Fred Perry

~ Sports do not build character. They reveal it. ~

John Wooden

~ The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst. ~

Martina Navratilova

~ Sports is like a war without the killing. ~

Ted Turner

~ Sports is the toy department of human life. ~

Howard Cosell

~ The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit. ~

Ken Doherty

~ Books had instant replay long before televised sports. ~

Bern Williams

~ The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports ~

Piet Hein

~ Sports do not build character. They reveal it. ~

John Wooden

~ What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle. ~

Joe Paterno

~ Sports are the reason I am out of shape. I watch them all on TV. ~

Thomas Sowell

~ The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature ~

Thorstein Veblen

~ Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators. ~

Avram Noam Chomsky

~ Sports is like a war without the killing. ~

Ted Turner

~ The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love ~

Bryant Gumbel

~ The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love ~

Bryant Gumbel

~ Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass ~

Bob Hope

~ Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game ~

Phil Blackmar

~ It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling. ~

Mark Twain

~ It is good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling ~

Mark Twain

~ It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. ~

Mark Twain

~ Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. ~

Lewis H Lapham

~ Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids. ~

Jim Sensenbrenner

~ Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown. ~

John Berger

~ The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before. ~

Arthur Erickson

~ They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there. ~

Mike Schmidt

~ Sports constantly make demands on the participant for top performance, and they develop integrity, self-reliance and initiative. They teach you a lot about working in groups, without being unduly submerged in the group. ~

Byron R. White

~ Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened. ~

Rita Rudner

~ Sports are the reason I am out of shape. I watch them all on TV. ~

Thomas Sowell

~ It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly. ~

William Sloan Coffin

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