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Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.: Anthony Starr
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.: Bill Shankly, In Sunday Times (UK) Oct. 4 1981
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.: Erma Bombeck (1927 - 1996)
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.: George F. Will (1941 - )
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.: George F. Will (1941 - )
For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks-not that you won or lost- But how you played the game.: Grantland Rice, "Alumunus Football," Only the Brave and Other Poems, p. 144 (1941)
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.: Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939)
Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.: Joe Theismann, Former quarterback
I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they do it over and over again for months when they figure it out, and how basketball was basically just a slightly more aerobic version of that same exercise.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.: John Wooden (1910 - )
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.: Phyllis Diller
For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is...: Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Birds of a Feather, 1993
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
Not every age is fit for childish sports.: Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC)
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.: Wayne Gretzky (1961 - )
If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The First Part of King Henry the IV'
Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.: Willie Shoemaker
Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )


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