sports

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

—Frayne,Trent

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

—Love,James pseudonym of  James Dance

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

—Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis)

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

Watch against inordinate sensual delight in even the

—Baxter, Richard

Organised outdoor sports for the old ruling classes.

—Hobson,John Atkinson

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

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

—Massinger, Philip

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

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

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

—Broun, (Matthew) Heywood Campbell

   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

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

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

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')