“Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.” SportsBloodUltimateGossipColumnsRefinement Author:Bernard Ingham
“Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It lacks tenacity. The Englishmen, on the other hand, one notices that they are of Germanic blood. Sportsmen easily take to flying, and Englishmen see in flying nothing but a sport.” SometimesHandsSpiritSportsBloodFlyingAttackingEnglishmenTenacityFrenchmenSportsmanLemonadeGaelic Book:The Red Baron Source: The Red Baron
“As far as our culture of humiliation goes, what we need is a revolution. Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop.” NeedsCultureSportsBloodRevolutionHumiliation Author:Monica Lewinsky
“Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.” PeopleAmericaSportsComedyBloodLogicTwistedBullfighting Author:Elayne Boosler
“Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.” MayStillsHardGamesSportsHistoryFateBloodSubjectsHard WorkReturnVictoryDisciplineGainsLaborBlindRewardsMetaphorWeatherFarmingSeductiveQuirksVisualizing Author:Garrison Keillor
“I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.” PeopleThinkingSeemsSportsBloodContact Author:Sherry Turkle
“Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot.” PersonsNamesSportsBloodBallots Author:Paul Ryan