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Quotations by Subject: Sports (18 quotes)

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As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), King Lear, Act IV, sc. 1
It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. but business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine
Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.: Paul Rodriguez
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman
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One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted...If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he is after is having to win it, to conquer the surly brute through his own effort and skill with all the extras that this carries with it: the immersion in the countryside, the healthfulness of the exercise, the distraction from his job.: Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955), Meditations on Hunting
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Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.: Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989), A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
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The pleasure of the sportsman in the chase is measured by the intelligence of the game and its capacity to elude pursuit and in the labor involved in the capture.: John Dean Caton
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I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.: Ed Zern
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In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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