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1 " Running isn't a sport for pretty boys...It's about the sweat in your hair and the blisters on your feet. Its the frozen spit on your chin and the nausea in your gut. It's about throbbing calves and cramps at midnight that are strong enough to wake the dead. It's about getting out the door and running when the rest of the world is only dreaming about having the passion that you need to live each and every day with. It's about being on a lonely road and running like a champion even when there's not a single soul in sight to cheer you on. Running is all about having the desire to train and persevere until every fiber in your legs, mind, and heart is turned to steel. And when you've finally forged hard enough, you will have become the best runner you can be. And that's all that you can ask for. "
― , The Gift - A Runner's Story
2 " 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 , The Adventures of Sally
3 " As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the players themselves'. This is football. "
― Ian Mortimer , The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
4 " The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics, adults and politicians do more finger-pointing and play more games than children ever do. Too often are we rooting for the pride of a team rather than the good of the nation. "
― Criss Jami , Healology
5 " Arguing is a waste of time, because our attitudes need a quantum leap, not our knowledge. Arguing is a sport at best and a bad attitude at worst. "
― Stefan Emunds
6 " Who else, when we stepped to the line in Torino, was going to be so mentally tough? Who else would have proven to himself that he could do anything he set out to do? In a sport that was always one tick away from being entirely out of control, who else would have done everything he could to take charge of the things he could-and should- control to put himself in position to excel? "
7 " The life of this world is but a sport and a pastime. "
― , القرآن الكريم
8 " Software testing is a sport like hunting, it's bughunting. "
― Amit Kalantri
9 " Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. "
― Tiger Woods
10 " Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport. "
11 " I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered around lying on your couch in a neurotic stupor all day, I'd take an interest. "
― Colson Whitehead , The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
12 " Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform. As a consequence, it is the most democratic and most competitive of all sports because individual merit can prevail despite economic equality. It is a sport for everyone, the whole world over. "
― Bernd Heinrich , Why We Run: A Natural History
13 " In a sport that demands compulsion, sometimes the hardest task is having the confidence to rest. "
14 " Running a race assigns a point to a sport that often feels very pointless. It's an exuberant payoff to months of tedium. It's a way of crafting an end boss for a particularly cumbersome video game. It's a fun, monstrous reason to keep putting one foot in front of the other. So, do yourself a favor: go build a monster. "
― , The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances
15 " It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that. "
16 " It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion. "
17 " A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles. "
18 " I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment. "
19 " If we have a situation where a man is particularly graceful in a sport that rewards grace - say, for example, figure skating - why is it that we don't say to the man, 'Well, you're too feminine to compete?'... I don't understand why we don't find it offensive also to say to a women who's very strong, 'You're too masculine to compete.' "
20 " I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.' "
