#sport

They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time. ↗

— Oscar Robertson

#been #college #game #had #high

Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#city #down #end #everybody #everyone

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. ↗

— Will Rogers

#been #depressed #enough #everything #forget

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror. ↗

— Chris Bailey

#happiness #horror #i #know #lots

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept. ↗

— James Collins

#circle #coach #concept #counselor #deals

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#brothers #great #had #i #interest

The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents. ↗

— Will McDonough

#changed #courts #free #free agents #freedom

We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game. ↗

— John McEnroe

#because #depend #fact #fans #game

If somebody asks me whether I'd rather sink the winning putt in the Ryder Cup or win a major, it's the major every day. World championship or Ryder Cup? Win a world championship. At the end of the day you're going to be remembered for what you achieve in an individual sport. ↗

— Rory McIlroy

#asks #championship #cup #day #end

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#common sense #hate #hates #i #likes