I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.
Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.
The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.
Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.
In sports, Vijay Singh wins the Masters golf tournament and is awarded the coveted green jacket, which is quickly snatched away by angry Buick executives and given to Tiger Woods.
In sports, the U.S. Open is not actually held because it's more efficient just to mail the check to Tiger Woods.
All of them who need to tell ladies to stop talking about sports and stay on the sidelines, because we are baby-making machines.
If there is only one Creator who made the tiger and the lamb, the cheetah and the gazelle, what is He playing at? Is he a sadist who enjoys spectator blood sports?.. Is He manoeuvring to maximise David Attenborough's television ratings?
By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.
I play sports.. No I don't, what the fuck?
An old cat sports not with her prey.
We're very poor because the sports ministry has not done enough. If elected, I will sit down with the federation and come up with plans that will turn our country into a football superpower.
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As happens with sports and hobbies, his enjoyment was solemnized by expertise, the rites of comparing, collating, a half-deliberate parody of scholarship like the recitation of batting averages.
Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives priviliges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. The jackasses remain. Triumphant.
Joe Louis and I were the first modern national sports figures who were black.. But neither of us could do national advertising because the South wouldn't buy it. That was the social stigma we lived under.
Like so many other office workers of the world, I will obey my master, the clock, and will obediently nod to my co-workers and make small talk about sports, kids and weather - all things I'm not genuinely interested in.
The problem with winning at blackjack and sports betting is that sooner or later a big guy in a suit tells you to leave.
To me, torture would be watching sports on television.
In a 1988 Sports Illustrated interview: Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent. Do you know what I do sometimes? Put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.
We play a violent sport.
For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport.
A team sport is not very good for me, because I can't take losing.
In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.
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