sport

The Greatest_ is a bite-your-tongue-book. Ultimately a tragic tale it is also immensely uplifting and easily the best footballer biography I have ever read.

A sportsman is a man who every now and then simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he's cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big enough.

When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

Sport is one area where no participant is worried about another's race religion or wealth: and where the only concern is 'Have you come to play?'

Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Hockey captures the essence of the Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold hockey is the dance of life and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.

Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet.

Every time you win you're reborn when you lose you die a little.

It you watch a game it's fun. If you play it it's recreation. If you work at it it's golf.

Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player.

You can't think and hit at the same time.

Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.

It is in games that many men discover their paradise.

Well God is certainly getting an earful tonight.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm you'll be fired with enthusiasm.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners only survivors.