#sport

Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front. ↗

— Joe Namath

#front #get #i #i came #only

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#culture #humor #love-of-reading #reading #sports

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#communication #country #european #globe #hundred

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs. ↗

— Alan Parsons

#cheap #deals #delighted #did #frustrating

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. ↗

— Neil Peart

#drumming #gave #get #into #later

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence. ↗

— Nick Price

#fundamentals #got #head #his #kind

I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific. ↗

— Lynn Redgrave

#being #big #channel #could #fan

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan. ↗

— Phil Simms

#fan #radio #ruined #sports #sports fan

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#sports #art

When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#relationships #shepherd #sport #wolf #art