Best sports & war Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.”

War Sports Fierce Strife Wrath Quarrels Begets

Author:Horace

“Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.”

War Sports Class Burden Pursuit Resistance Gentleman Enterprise Heroic Passive Ruling Nonconformity Passive Resistance

Author:Kenneth Kaunda

“George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.”

War Sports Lines Greatness Murder International Breathing Shooting Thinker Minus

Book:Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and Its Discontents

Source: Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and Its Discontents

“Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption.”

May War Form Language Sports Emotional Destruction Redemption Intensity

Book:The Longest Race: A Lifelong Runner, An Iconic Ultramarathon, and the Case for Human Endurance

Source: The Longest Race: A Lifelong Runner, An Iconic Ultramarathon, and the Case for Human Endurance

“My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport.”

Want Should Looks War Sports Parent Study Figures Football Profession Guidance Zone Substitutes Entering Pagan Assertion Prescriptions Remakes War Zones Brash

Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.”

War Sports Grew Grew Up Germany

Author:Bernhard Langer

“This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.”

War Games Sports

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“We are become Middle Men, of the Twilight, but with memory of other things. For as the Rohirrim do, we now love war and valour as things good in themselves, both a sport and an end; and though we still hold that a warrior should have more skills and knowledge than only the craft of weapons and slaying, we esteem a warrior, nonetheless, above men of other crafts. Such is the need of our days.”

Men Needs Should Stills War Ends Sports Memories Middle Skills Weapons Should Have Esteem Crafts Warrior Twilight Valour Slaying Skills And Knowledge

Author:Faramir

“War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.”

War Use Sports Peace Amusing

Author:H. L. Mencken

“I'm so sick and tired of people in the media telling us that because of the war, sports aren't important. Fans need sports. We'd have only crime and war to watch on TV if not for sports.”

People Ifs Needs Important War Sports Watches Fans Media Crime Tvs Sick Tired So Sick

Author:Charles Barkley

“The war on drugs has been a social and political failure. We need to encourage sport and stop encouraging drugs.”

Needs Has Beens War Political Social Sports Drug War On Drugs

Author:Steven Machat

“Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.”

“One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth.”

Men Firsts War Running Games Sports Difficult Realizing Football Baseball Raised Soldier Umpires Football Game Baseball Games Referee

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.”

War Ends Sports Television Cold News Cold War

Author:Ted Turner

“People's instinct when they hear someone is madly obsessed with Star Wars or Harry Potter or something like that, they think that it's odd and not as cool as being a massive sports fan or film nerd. But I think it's amazing and something that should be celebrated and definitely not looked down on or misunderstood.”

People Thinking Should War Film Stars Sports Fans Instinct Odd Obsessed Massive Harry Potter Nerd Misunderstood Potters Sports Fan

Author:Tom Felton

“Being a soldier [in the wars of modern power politics] was like being on a team in a sport that drew no crowds, except for the players' own parents and friends.”

War Sports Parent Player Team Modern Soldier Crowds Power Politics

Author:Dan Wakefield

“Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.”

Ifs Needs War Use Sports Metaphor

Author:John Hodgman

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