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I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

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Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.

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There is no sport in hate where all the rage Is on one side.

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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

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Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

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Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

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They wanted to buy out my contract, but I couldn't make change for a $20, so they had to let me stay.

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The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.

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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

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No one has ever drowned in sweat.

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

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We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.

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If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

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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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Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made he (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one...that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

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

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If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

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Every day the word 'gift' is used to define talent, ability, and performance. Being gifted has an even deeper meaning, a meaning that isn't always measured in points per game or win/loss records - it's measured by heart, effort, and desire.

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