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“Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work proper so that he is at no time independent of one technique or another. In sport the citizen of the technical society finds the same spirit, criteria, morality, actions and objectives in short, all the technical laws and customs which he encounters in office or factory.”

Action Law Spirit Sports Citizens Morality Office Tradition Independent Workers Finished Technique Objectives Encounters Relief Carrie Customs Distraction Factories Criteria Deviation

Author:Jacques Ellul

“This is going to become a battle for access to your home and office plus mobility. It's about who can provide the biggest and least expensive and fastest pipe to your home and office and offer you a mobility feature.”

Home Sports Battle Offers Office Access Features Expensive Plus Pipe Mobility

Author:Steve Largent

“Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.”

Running Politics Sports Office Interactive Running For Office

Author:Carrie Fisher

“Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.”

Ifs Sports Trouble Team Members Office Sports Team

Book:The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

Source: The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

“Like so many other office workers of the world, I will obey my master, the clock, and will obediently nod to my co-workers and make small talk about sports, kids and weather - all things I'm not genuinely interested in.”

World Kids Sports Masters Office All Things Workers Weather Clock Small Talk Co Worker

Author:Rob Payne

“The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment of nature, sports, fashion, social vanity (knightly orders, honorary offices, gatherings) and the intoxication of the senses.”

Art Order Reading Social Sports Music Fashion Fine Travel Office Senses Vanity Enjoyment Enjoy Life Gathering Enjoyable Fine Arts Intoxication Honorary Reading Music

Author:Johan Huizinga

“All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all its forms, but also for every variety of calisthenics, so that I still begrudge the trifling exertion needed to climb in and out of a bathtub, and hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. If I had my way no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States, and all female athletes would be shipped to the white-slave corrals of the Argentine.”

“We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.”

Sports Duty Office Vote Retiring Spectators

Author:David Gergen

“We have to move the meter in sports in Africa, especially basketball. With the growth of the NBA globally, we have to figure out more ways to develop facilities, coaching, leagues, and youth development in Africa. The talent is incredible. Especially physically. How do we get the youth to start playing at an early age just like in soccer? The future is bright. We now have an NBA office in Africa, we have legends and Hall of Famers, we have African assistant coaches, front office members, and some prominent African players over the last 10 years. So we must plan well for the next 10.”