5,260 Quotes About Sports

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.

Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead

Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.

To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.

It's a 32-minute game. We were a little rusty at the start, but some of that may have been because we haven't played in 11 nights. We seemed much more comfortable in the second half on offense and defense.