Sports Quotes

• "I spent 23 years in Taekwondo, 23 years kicking and the past seven years boxing."
  By: Hopkins Bernard
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• "I'm really sad that as far as the Olympics, women's boxing still hasn't been allowed."
  By: Hopkins Bernard
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• "Skiing: the art of catching cold and going broke while rapidly heading nowhere at great personal risk."
  By: Hopkins Bernard
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• "Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play."
  By: Hopkins Bernard
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• "Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money."
  By: Hopkins Bernard
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• "Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all."
  By: Hopkins Bernard
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• "Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting."
  By: Hopkins Bernard
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• "In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and competition. The developing athletes who make the fastest progress and those who ultimately become their best make extensive use of mental imagery. They use it daily as a means of directing what will happen in training, and as a way of pre-experiencing their best competition performances."
  By: Hopkins Bernard
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• "Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense."
  By: Hopkins Bernard
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• "Sports should always be fun."
  By: Hopkins Bernard
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• "Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see -- not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness."
  By: Hopkins Bernard
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• "Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games."
  By: Hopkins Bernard
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• "For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture."
  By: Hopkins Bernard
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• "There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque."
  By: Hopkins Bernard
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• "There is a syndrome in sports called paralysis by analysis."
  By: Hopkins Bernard
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• "I'd run over my mother to win the Super Bowl."
  By: Russ Grimm
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