Sports Quotes

Not every age is fit for childish sports.

Titus Maccius Plautus

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something.

Stephen Leacock

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all others are games.

Ernest Hemingway

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Heywood

Pour water on a sportswriter - - Instant horseshit.

Ted Williams

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

Paul Fussell

There are only 3 sports, Bullfighting, Motor Racing and Mountain climbing. All the rest are games.

Earnest Hemingway

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

George F. Will

Science would be ruined if like sports it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads - By - Choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

Benoit Mandelbrot