Sports Quotes

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

Not every age is fit for childish sports.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Paul Fussell

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

Helen Kelle

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

Ernest Hemingway

Pour water on a sportswriter - - Instant horseshit.

Ted Williams

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Heywood

Reading transports me. I can go anywhere and never leave my chair. It lets me shake hands with new ideas.

Rolfe Neill

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

Stephen Leacock