To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires thinking.

Sport feels the heart. Life feels the love. (Le sport éprouve le cœur. – La vie éprouve l’amour)

Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.

I am not designed to come secondor third, I am designedto win.

Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. That’s hardly athletic. Phallic and sexy, yes. But hardly athletic.

I mean it, guys,” I said. “Why don’t you play Two Foot Trivia instead? It’s just as fun and much safer.””First of all, this is completely safe,” Grayson replied. “Second, if we had both feet...

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.

Wie man weiß, gibt es ja nichts auf der ganzen Welt, das langweiliger ist, als Sport zu machen, und wenn etwas noch langweiliger ist, dann natürlich Sportlern bei der Ausübung ihrer langweiligen Sportarten zuzusehen.

Mistakes made me matchless.

As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as ‘abominable … more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident...

Football is the poetry of a motion.

My ballsack drives me nuts. Jogging has got to be the floppiest sport. Definitely not for lovers. Gentlemen prefer gymnastics.

Well, with that filly in my line of vision blushing like a virgin, something in me was bound to stand at attention. And my walking legs were occupied.

The sports pages are men’s pages, although they are not presented as such. /…/ On foreign fields, the men win their trophies, or lose their honour, doing battle on the nation’s behalf. The readers, mainly...

George Orwell famously described international sport as ‘war minus the shooting’. But for all Orwell’s greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to ‘murder minus the death’ or ‘life...

Men don’t have a reason any more. No one wants us. Why should they? What can we do? We have no job, no home to go to. It’s been taken away. Small wonder then that...

I’ve often said a man’s character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall. So no matter how great the setback, how severe...

Archie Henderson has won no awards, written no books and never played any representative sport. He was an under-11 tournament-winning tennis player as a boy, but left the game when he discovered rugby where he...

Philosophy is not a spectator sport.

I cross country ski on conveyer belts covered with shaved ice. People trying to check out at the grocery store need to show more respect for serious athletes.

The Yankees’ Facebook page was hacked. The hacker was immediately purchased and signed to a 5 year contract with the Yankees.

Il segreto più profondo di Olimpia è racchiuso in quest’unica nota cristallina: lottare è un gioco, vivere è un gioco, morire è un gioco; profitti e perdite non sono che distinzioni passeggere, ma il gioco...

As in diamonds so in batting, perfection requires flawlessness and nowhere is a batting imperfection more quickly recognised than in the dropped catch. For this reason any innings worthy of consideration deserves to have all...

My cat’s favorite sport is economics, and his favorite player is Ben Bernanke. But it’s just too violent for me to enjoy.

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

…So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad and barren lives; it is just that real life is...

Put your Body First!

I like wooden shoes—John Wooden. They are better for playing basketball. Nail them to the hardwood floor for increased shooting efficiency.

Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn’t.

Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state...

Tennis is the loneliest sport

OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2… priceless.

Love is a fur helmet in a new sport called Petting, where physical contact is the object of the game. Even when you lose, you win.

But Langer’s mendacity, and Parker’s possible cowardice, is less interesting and salient for our purposes than the question of whether or not Gilchrist, too, was lying: ‘I didn’t hear anything—absolutely nothing.’ These were his words...

I can’t believe I’ve missed this sport. It’s all about fingering holes and caressing balls.

Fitnes centri fitnes klubovi

Bring it on. – I can take whatever you can dish out.” Sometimes life is your opponent and just showing up is a victory.You don’t need to score more points than your opponent in order...

There are four quarters in a football game. That’s natural, because that’s 100%. I’m a 75% kind of fan, because I’m all about the quarterback.

Une civilisation sans la Science, ce serait aussi absurde qu’un poisson sans bicyclette.

In a spornographic age it’s no longer enough for the male body to be presented to us by consumerism as merely attractive, or desiring to be desired, as it was in the early days of...

I was not a doper, I told myself – I just injected myself to recover and needed pills to sleep.

The de-spiritualization of asceticisms is probably the event in the current intellectual history of mankind that is the most comprehensive and, because of its large scale, the hardest to perceive, yet at once the most...

The wheel is man’s greatest invention, and as such, unicycling is the world’s purest sport.

Les hémorragies cérébrales sont moins fréquentes chez les amateurs et les joueurs de football que chez le reste de la population. Les cerveaux aussi.

I lost count of the number of referees who came to me both at Derby and Forest and said, ‘I’d just like to express my thanks. I love matches involving your team. We never have...

She transcends her sport, which is what any sport needs…And she does it while smiling the whole time. It’s kind of a joke, but then again it’s not, especially if you’re a male pro trailing...

Who but the sports-mad [Norman] Mailer would liken the battle between God and the Devil to a game of American football? The contest, for sure, has with [sic] own laws (so that after God and...

while you play bowling with one ball you will be late because untill come in that ball it’s need time so you need more than one ball in order to defeat the whole army .

Today, with the way things are in all circles, in soccer, in society, in politics, where it seems anything goes, a gesture of honesty goes down well.

Voila bien la différence entre le singe et le footballeur. Le premier a trop de mains ou pas assez de pieds pour s’abaisser à jouer au football.