#sport

One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#after #always #answer #been #clock

A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#applicable #been #enormous #exemption #garner

I went through baseball as "a player to be named later." ↗

— Joe Garagiola

#baseball #i #later #named #player

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#bull #bulls #fights #people #win

I'm a sports guy. Football, God, I flip out. ↗

— David Boreanaz

#football #god #guy #i #out

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me. ↗

— Jack Brickhouse

#dry #entertainment #first #foremost #i

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts. ↗

— Phil Jackson

#agendas #approach #away #come #efforts

In a spornographic age it’s no longer enough for the male body to be presented to us by consumerism as merely attractive, or desiring to be desired, as it was in the early days of nakedly narcissistic male metrosexuality. This masculine coquettish-ness, pleasing as it is, no longer offers an intense enough image. Or provokes enough lust. It’s just not very shocking or arousing any more. In fact, it’s just too… normal. To get our attention these days the sporting male body has to promise us nothing less than an immaculately groomed, waxed and pumped gang-bang in the showers. ↗

— Mark Simpson

#metrosexual #sporno #sport #age

I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had. ↗

— David Millar

#doping #doubt #inspirational #sports #change

The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness ↗

— Donald Bradman

#athletes #dignity #sportsman #courage