5,260 Quotes About Sports

  • Author H. L. Mencken
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    War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.

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  • Author Harriet Martineau
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    When once experience taught me that I could work when I chose, and within a quarter of an hour of my determining to do so, I was relieved, in a great measure, from those embarrassments and depressions which I see afflicting many an author who waits for a mood instead of summoning it, and is the sport, instead of the master, of his own impressions and ideas.

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  • Author Haruki Murakami
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    I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

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  • Author Haruki Murakami
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    Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

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  • Author Harvey MacKay
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    There will always be someone with a cuter girl, a bigger car, a bigger home, but that does not matter. You measure your own performance by your own potential. That's what makes a successful person.

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  • Author Heather Morris
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    Dancing was my sport when I was younger. So I chose that over everything. And then, I just had to keep going because it became a competitive thing. But I'm not trying to impress anyone anymore. Dancing is more like my art, now.

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  • Author Heather Mills
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    Having loved sport my whole life, competing in a Paralympics would be a dream come true.

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  • Author Heather Mills
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    I loved the adrenalin rush of the skeleton, and would love to do it as a Paralympic sport if they ever bring it into the Games.

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