#sport

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job. ↗

— William Sanderson

#because #consistent #delusion #french #grandeur

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

Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't. ↗

— Shane Warne

#cricket #deception #spin-bowling #sport #art

Good thing in this business is that you just have to make one big shot and that’s enough to make you forget 9 other shots that you missed. ↗

— Guy Zucker

#sports-agent #business

Anyone who likes or hates Dana White should take a look at this. ↗

— June White

#business #fighting #international-business #mma #president-of-mma-company

Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it...and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again! ↗

— Jack London

#sports #life

If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt. ↗

— Dean Martin

#drink #drive #even #putt #you

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog. ↗

— Whitey Herzog

#buddy #buy #dog #i #need

I see great things in baseball. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#sports #baseball

Sure, there is an undeniable pleasure in rooting for a winning team and in being able to look down on opposing fans with equal measures of superiority and disdain. But that's also the Ruthian drawback in rooting for the Yankees (along with high ticket prices, overpriced concessions and crude neighbors). The true pleasure in sports comes not from simply winning but from watching a team overcome adversity to win in the end. The joy of sports is never the final destination, it's the journey. It's experiencing the highs and lows, and appreciating those highs all the more because of the awful lows. ↗

— Jim Caple

#sports #equality