#sport

In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised. ↗

— David Miliband

#centrally #education #housing #over #prescribed

I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes. ↗

— Chris Moneymaker

#day #else #enjoyed #every #every day

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#attire #behavior #even #frame #grace

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#children #deemed #most #noted #plays

In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever. ↗

— Joe Montana

#eight #forever #old #play #sports

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world. ↗

— Andy Murray

#event #far #me #olympics #sporting event

When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50. ↗

— Guy Forget

#great #guys #professional #sportsman #top

Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#back #behold #bits #capital #certain

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. ↗

— Dan Gable

#alloy #called #determination #gold #gold medals

We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to. ↗

— Jerry Lawler

#best #enjoy #entertainment #finally #forms