5,260 Quotes About Sports


  • Author Mike O'Malley
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    I have three kids, and I'm a coach for a lot of their sports, so I'm around them a lot, but I see friends of mine with older kids and they don't really interact so much, other than giving them a place to live.

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  • Author Nick Offerman
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    I made an executive decision in college when I learned how behind I was in the world of books, films, and music because of my rural upbringing. I really reduced the amount of time that sports took up in my life.I still have some Faulkner to get through.

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  • Author Ovid
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    Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved, Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.

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  • Author Ouida
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    Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.

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  • Author Ozzy Osbourne
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    I was never good at sports. I was never good at exams, because they didn't understand dyslexia.

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  • Author P. J. O'Rourke
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    Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.

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  • Author P. J. O'Rourke
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    Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.

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