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SPORTS QUOTES
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No physical activity is so vain as boxing. A man gets into the ring to attract admiration. In no sport, therefore, can you be more humiliated.
—Mailer, Norman Kingsley
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasure to another's pain.
—Cowper,William
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My idea of a contact sport was chess.
—Hughes, Robert Studley Forrest
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In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.
—Graves, Robert von Ranke
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Stretch pants: the garment that made skiing a spectator sport.
—Anonymous
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The national sport of England is obstacle-racing. People fill their rooms with useless and cumbersome furniture, and spend the rest of their lives trying to dodge it.
—Tree, Sir Herbert (Draper) Beerbohm
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Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself.
—Froude,James Anthony
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The only athletic sport I mastered was backgammon.
—Jerrold, Douglas William
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Politics is a blood sport.
—Bevan, Aneurin
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We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.
—Gergen, David Richmond
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Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.
—Edgeworth, Maria
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