5,260 Quotes About Sports

Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.

The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.

When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.

One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?