#sports

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment. ↗

— Avery Brundage

#entertainment #must #played #professionally #sports

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? ↗

— Jane Austen

#sports

[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'" (One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.) ↗

— David Halberstam

#basketball #david-halberstam #julius-erving #professionalism #sports

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. ↗

— Ted Williams

#baseball #considered #endeavor #field #good

I love the smell of the ice... And the cold. The sound the puck makes when it's sliding across the ice or when hits the net for a goal... as long as it's our goal. I love the sound of sticks crashing against one another. The sound my skates make when I come to a hard stop. The roar of the crowd. The way I feel when i'm playing. I can do things on this ice that I can't do anywhere else. ↗

— J. Sterling

#love #sports #dreams

The sad fact of life: Winners love the game. Losers don't. ↗

— The Wombat

#true-to-life #life

Besides my great fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica. ↗

— James Patterson

#sports

It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#god #play #sports

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#good #lose #only #prove #way

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#best #black #going #golfer #hell