#ball

A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid, old-fashioned images and ideas about gender can be challenged and alternatives imagined. I have never seen a ballet performance that has not disappointed me. ↗

— Ramsay Burt

#ballet #dance #experimental #gender #progressive

The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't. ↗

— Fay Vincent

#big #big problem #clubs #economics #little

What do you think I imagine making love to a vagina would be like? Maybe like having sex with a ballroom! ↗

— John Irving

#vagina #imagination

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive. ↗

— Merce Cunningham

#dance #inspirational #merce-cunningham #inspirational

I lust love to play football. ↗

— Ray Nitschke

#i #love #lust #play #play football

The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them. ↗

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

#idol #inspiration #soccer #inspirational

Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt. ↗

— Gail Parent

#get #hurt #jewish #nobody #volleyball

You're the only one that can put pressure on yourself... No one else can put pressure on you. It's self-inflicted. For me, I just want to go out and play football. ↗

— Maurice Jones-Drew

#football #inspiration #truth #inspirational

If you're ashamed to stand by your colours, you better seek for another flag. ↗

— Mokhtar Dahari

#inspirational #patriotism #inspirational

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#basketball #game #sports #sports-inspirational #sportsmanship