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- Churches are just sports teams that have mascots that can fly.
- Tim Minchin, BACK, 2022
- When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
- Chief Justice Earl Warren
- Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
- Benoit Mandelbrot
- The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class.
- Paul Fussell
- I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
- Chief Justice Earl Warren
- A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something.
- Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
- The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975)
- 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)
- Though one should be prepared to vomit rather frequently and disport with pink elephants and assorted grotesqueries while trying often unsuccessfully to make one's way to the toilet.
- William F. Buckley Jr. - in response to previous statement
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