“I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.” Quote by Bob Hope
“To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.” TryingSportsPrivilegeCriminalsStealingMotivational SportsSparksDopeRacersSacrilegious Author:Roland Barthes
“People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.” PeopleIfsLooksKidsSportsRocksBunchMotivational SportsThrowingContestsThrowing Rocks Author:Don Murray
“Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.” KnowsGivingCharacterOpportunitySportsWhitePlayerPersonalityTestsShiningBonesMotivational SportsShort SportsBeauty Within Author:Rita Mae Brown
“When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.” PeopleLooksSportsShareDangerousActivityTrialsLook UpMotivational SportsTireJuryTrial By Jury Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.” PeopleTwoSportsDarkFieldsGrassKneesMotivational SportsCricketUmpiresStainsTrousers Author:Katharine Whitehorn
“Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.” PeopleGivingSpiritualOrderGamesSportsEternityMotivational SportsConceptionCricket Author:Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft
“Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.” IfsHeavenSportsRainMotivational SportsCricketCricket Funny Author:Alec Douglas-Home
“The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.” MenSportsBallsInventionWheelsMotivational Sports Author:Robert Morley
“I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.” IfsUseSkillsOratory Author:Noam Chomsky
