One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows. —Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
From my locker I collected my sneakers, jock strap, and gym pants and then turned away, leaving the door ajar for the first time, forlornly open and abandoned, the locker unlocked. This was more final than the moment when the Headmaster handed me my diploma. My schooling was over now. —John Knowles, A Separate Peace More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He'd long ago given up hope of finding a country anywhere in the world where it was safe to tell total strangers that he had no interest in sports whatsoever. —Greg Egan, Zandegi More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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