Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Sports Quotes, Song Quotes

Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities, or the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations, which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.

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One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game. No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush's Iraq War.

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A modern school where football is taught.

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A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.

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The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game.

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Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.

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The answer is surprisingly simple. Just do right. Live an honorable life.

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On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.

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In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.

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Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

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If I make a set of rules, then a guy goes out and steals an airplane. He comes back and says, 'It wasn't in the rules.'

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Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

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Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.

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Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality.

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The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game.

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My toughest fight was with my first wife.

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Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

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It dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances, it dances. It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacock’s tail, It soars to the sky with delight, it quests, Oh wildly, it dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances.

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