Watch against inordinate sensual delight in even the

-Baxter, Richard
US  businessman,  passenger  on  the  hijacked  United  Airlines Flight 93 on11 September 2001.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

-Broun, (Matthew) Heywood Campbell
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

It is an axiom of sports that the legs go first. For sportswriters, it's the enthusiasm.

-Frayne,Trent
  The Tales of an  Athletic Supporter.

Organised outdoor sports for the old ruling classes.

-Hobson,John Atkinson
  On militarism and colonialism. Imperialism.

It is statute and ordained that in na place of the Realme there be used Fute-ball,Golfe, or uther sik unproffitable sportes.

-James IV
  Royal decree.

We've dominated sports and we've dominated entertainment, but our problem has been we've never been able to dominate money.We still don't own our share of business, and it's killing us. It's killing our communities.

-Johnson, Earvin ('Magic')
  On  African  Americans. Quoted in Los  Angeles Magazine, Oct.

   Hail Cricket! glorious, manly, British game! First of all Sports! be first alike in fame!

-Love,James pseudonym of  James Dance
  'Cricket:  An Heroic Poem'.

Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.

-Massinger, Philip
  Of the theatre. The Roman  Actor, act1, sc.1.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

-Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)
Quoted in Fred Metcalfe The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations (1986).

   All winter long, I am one for whom the bell is tolling; I can arouse no interest in basketball, Indoor fly casting or bowling; The sports pages are strictly no soap! And until the cry Play Ball! I simply mope.

-Nash, (Frederic) Ogden
  Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Praise the sports of the land And water, each oneö The bath by the beach, or the yacht on the seaö But of all the sweet pleasures Known under the sun; A good game of Croquet's the sweetest to me.

-Reid,Thomas Mayne
  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game† In a world haunted by thehydrogenand napalm bomb, thefootball field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.

-Rous, Sir Stanley
  Quoted in Bryon Butler The Official History of the Football Association (1986).

What man that sees the ever-whirling wheel Of Change, the which all mortal things doth sway, But that thereby doth find, and plainly feel, How mutability in them doth play Her cruel sports, to many men's decay?

-Spenser, Edmund
  The Faerie Queen,'Mutability', canto 6, stanza1.

He brought an eye for all he saw; He mixed in all our simple sports; They pleased him, fresh from brawling courts And dusty purlieus of the law.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 89, l.9^12.

I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man's failures.

-Warren, Earl
  In Sports Illustrated,'Scorecard', 22 Jul.