Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell

So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
Alain Prost

So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school.
Thomas Keneally

Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport.
Dick Schaap

Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.
Anita Desai

Sometimes people think that if you're always helping people up and never hit someone with a hard foul, you're automatically a good sport. I don't believe that.
Sue Wicks

Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.
Miguel Indurain

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.
Lynn Davies

Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
Ian Botham

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
Daley Thompson

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.
Robert Redford

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.
Avery Brundage

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
Pierre de Coubertin

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
Pierre de Coubertin

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.
Pierre de Coubertin

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

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.
Pierre de Coubertin

Squash has been my life and I owe a lot to the sport.
Jahangir Khan

Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful.
Jahangir Khan

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
Pierre de Coubertin