Sport is imposing1 order on what was chaos2.
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 excellence3.
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 cylindrical4 peg5 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 aerobic6 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...
Robin7 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 - )
