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Sports is like a war without the killing.

Ted Turner

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

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

Ken Doherty

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

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Bern Williams

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

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

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

Lewis H Lapham

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

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

Piet Hein

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

Sports is the toy department of human life.

Howard Cosell

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you still don't know the ending.

Neil Simon

Golf is the cruelest of sports. Like life, it's unfair. It's a harlot. A trollop. It leads you on. It never lives up to its promises.... It's a boulevard of broken dreams. It plays with men. And runs off with the butcher.

Jim Murray

Basketball is the MTV of sports.

Sara Levinson

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love

Bryant Gumbel

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

Paul Fussell

The day I became a poet was a sunny day of no particular ominousness. I was walking across the football field, not because I was sports-minded or had plans to smoke a cigarette behind the field house the only other reason for going there but because this was my normal way home from school. I was scuttling along in my usual furtive way, suspecting no ill, when a large invisible thumb descended from the sky and pressed down on the top of my head. A poem formed. It was quite a gloomy poem: the poems of the young usually are. It was a gift, this poem a gift from an anonymous donor, and, as such, both exciting and sinister at the same time. I suspect this is the way all poets begin writing poetry, only they don't want to admit it, so they make up more rational explanations. But this is the true explanation, and I defy anyone to disprove it.

Margaret Eleanor Atwood