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Many more people in the world are concerned with sports than with human rights.

Samuel P. Huntington The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order (1997)

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

Michel de Montaigne Essais (1571)

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd;
The sports of children satisfy the child.

Oliver Goldsmith The Traveller (1764)

The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport.

Horace

If all the year were playing holidays;
to sport would be as tedious as work.

William Shakespeare

It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.

George Herbert Jacula Prudentum (1651)

This is worth living for; the whole sum of school-boy existence gathered up into one straining, struggling half-hour, a half-hour worth a year of common life.

Thomas Hughes Tom Brown's School Days (1857)

The addiction to sports ... marks an arrested development of the man's moral nature.

Thorstein Veblen The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)

He's 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 Zendegi (2010)

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

One great reason why many children abandon themselves wholly to silly sports, and trifle away all their time insipidly, is, because they have found their curiosity baulk'd, and their inquiries neglected.

John Locke Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

For neither if there were a good boxer among the people, nor if there were a pentathlete or wrestling, nor again if there were someone swift of foot - which is most honoured of all men's deed of strength - would for this reason a city be better governed.

Xenophanes

Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope, where there was once only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination. Sports is the game of lovers.

Nelson Mandela

Sport is linked with the technical world because sport itself is a technique. The enormous contrast between the athletes of Greece and those of Rome is well known. For the Greeks, physical exercise was an ethic for developing freely and harmoniously the form and strength of the human body. For the Romans, it was a technique for increasing the legionnaire’s efficiency. The Roman conception prevails today.

Jacques Ellul The Technological Society (1954)

In the case of a people which represents many nations, cultures, and races, as does our own, a unification of interests and ideals in recreations is bound to wield a telling influence for solidarity of the entire population. No more truly democratic force can be set off against the tendency to class and caste than the democracy of individual parts and prowess in sport.

Calvin Coolidge

We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.

John F. Kennedy

I wish I had as much athleticism as she has to hop from sport to sport and win everything. Unfortunately I'm only good at ski racing and she still beat me!

Lindsey Vonn

My favorite athletes of any Olympics are always the African distance runners. You never have to drug test an African distance runner.

Robin Williams Weapons of Self Destruction (2010)

Sports brings people together. People in all of our countries are tired of ideological differences, of going back into the past all the time.

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović

For my track record as an athlete, if I was infected with the virus, I wouldn't have to worry.

Jair Bolsonaro

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