185 Quotes About Sport

George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.

The best daily sport is dancing.

Angling is a recreation. It’s supposed to be fun.

There are a million-and-one ways to enjoy a day’s angling. Catching fish is but one of them.

It is the goings-on between bites that excites the traditional angler as much as when the float goes under.

While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running.

With a good music and a good dance, you enhance your physical, emotional, spiritual and mental well-being.

Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. That’s hardly athletic. Phallic and sexy, yes. But hardly athletic.

Be X-elegant.