#sport

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body. ↗

— Bill Lee

#cerebral #church #constitution #enter #into

People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#announcers #baseball #continue #contrary #evidence

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#chamber #columns #echo #general #general manager

When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem. ↗

— Greg Louganis

#destroy #different #gay #great #growing

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. ↗

— Robert Wilson Lynd

#almost #golf #how #impossible #place

That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. ↗

— John Madden

#biggest #bowl #difference #gap #loser

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation. ↗

— Dolley Madison

#am #cabinet #carriage #fill #i

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government. ↗

— John Major

#ahead #always #areas #arts #back

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. ↗

— Malcolm X

#education #future #passport #prepare #those

My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.' ↗

— Peyton Manning

#dad #decision #front #go #guys