Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. —Nelson Mandela More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The thing about football — the important thing about football — is that it is not just about football. —Terry Pratchett More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public. —Phyllis Diller More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It's nothing of the kind. The game is about glory. It is about doing things in style, with a flourish. —Danny Blanchflower More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't hate anyone — at least, not for more than forty-eight minutes, barring overtime. —Charles Barkley More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words, it is war minus the shooting. —George Orwell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. —Muhammad Ali More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Boys who spent their weekends making banana-nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat. —David Sedaris More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media; I am against the glorification of immoral violence. —Dennis Prager More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest. —Bion of Borysthenes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
After watching a performance of his play Peter Pan with his five-year-old godson, J.M. Barrie asked the boy what he had liked best. "What I think I liked best," the boy replied, "was tearing up the program and dropping the bits on people's heads. —Lapham's Quarterly More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. —Plato More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be all right. —Alice Thomas Ellis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Death does not wait to see if things are done or not done. —The Kularnava Tantra More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I am ever stuck on a respirator or a life-support system, I definitely want to be unplugged — but not until I get down to a size eight. —Henriette Mantel More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email