- A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. ~ Gerry Cooney
- All sports are games of inches. ~ Dick Ritger
- Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. ~ Rita Mae Brown
- All sports for all people. ~ Pierre de Coubertin
- Anybody can be a runner… We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It’s the easiest sport. ~ Bill Rodgers
- As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman. ~ Lynn Davies
- As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid. ~ Irvin S. Cobb
- As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn’t sport, it’s work. ~ Avery Brundage
- Books had instant replay long before televised sports. ~ Bert Williams
- Business is a combination of war and sport. ~ Andre Maurois
- Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. ~ Mike Singletary
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? ~ Jane Austen
- Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they’re in the game. ~ Paul Rodriguez
- I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life. ~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work. ~ William Shakespeare
- In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. ~ Julia Child
- In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained. ~ Robert Graves
- In sports… you play from the time you’re eight years old, and then you’re done forever. ~ Joe Montana
- In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are. ~ Althea Gibson
- It isn’t hard to be good from time to time in sports. What’s tough is being good every day. ~ Willie Mays
- Life is a team sport. Sometimes you give and sometimes you get. ~ Ann Pearson
- My favorite sport is cheerleading! ~ Miley Cyrus
- Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture. ~ Juan Antonio Samaranch
- One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it. ~ Knute Rockne
- Politics is a blood sport. ~ Aneurin Bevan
- Said in sport, meant in earnest. ~ German Proverb
- Sport and life is about losing. It’s about understanding how to lose. ~ Lynn Davies
- Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership. ~ Daley Thompson
- Sport is a preserver of health. ~ Hippocrates
- Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music. ~ Avery Brundage
- Sport is part of every man and woman’s heritage and its absence can never be compensated for. ~ Pierre de Coubertin
- Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. ~ Pierre de Coubertin
- Sports do not build character. They reveal it. ~ John Wooden
- Sports should always be fun. ~ Charles Mann
- Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning. ~ Fred Perry
- Tennis is more than just a sport. It’s an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. ~ Bill Tilden
- The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. ~ Jean Claude Killy
- The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. ~ Peggy Fleming
- The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose. ~ Ernie Banks
- The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it. ~ Jimmy Greaves
- What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse. ~ German Proverb
- When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. ~ George Bernard Shaw
- 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. ~ James A. Froude
