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 SPORTS & SPORTSMANSHIP . . . SPORTS [QUOTES FOLLOW LINKS] see: BASEBALL BOXING COMPETITION CRICKET FOOTBALL GOLF HORSE RACING HUNTING MARATHONS OLYMPICS SKIING SOCCER SPORTSMANSHIP (below) TEAMWORK TENNIS --- The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary subsitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self. --Edward Abbey (1927—1989) American author. _Confessions of a Barbarian_ (ed. by David Petersen) There is plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards too. (Receiving news of the Armada while playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe - ODTQ.) --attributed to Francis Drake (c.1540—1596) English sailor and explorer. 'How you play the game' is for college boys. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters. Show me a good loser in professional sports, and I'll show you an idiot. Show me a sportsman, and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade to Oakland. --Leo [Ernest] Durocher (1905—1991) American professional baseball player and manager who was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1994. _Nice Guys Finish Last_ [1975] ^ Phil Esposito was one of the North American ice-hockey players who went to Moscow to play the Soviet team in the early 1970s. Assigned a hotel room, they suspected that it might be bugged. Esposito recalls, 'We searched the room for microphones. In the center of the room, we found a funny-looking, round piece of metal imbedded in the floor, under the rug. We figured we had found the bug. We dug it out of the floor. And we heard a crash beneath us. We had released the anchor to the chandelier in the ceiling below. _The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes_ Introduced by Edward Leeson [2005], "Sport and Show Business" ^ There is this idea that if you like football you also like beer and grabbing women's breasts. If you like rugby you also like Dire Straits and wine. And if you don't like either you must be a pacifist vegetarian. --Colin Firth (1960— ) British actor. In "Independent" [29 March 1997]. Girls shouldn't play with men's balls. Their hands are too small. --Senator Wally Horn of Iowa talking about girls sports in school — and specifically, what size basketball they should play with. Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. --Malcolm Muggeridge (1903—1990) British writer, broadcaster, and journalist. 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. --George Orwell [Eric Blair] (1903—1950) English novelist. _Shooting an Elephant_ [1950], "The Sporting Spirit" The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage. --Plato (427?—347 B.C.) Greek philosopher. _The Republic_ To play billiards well is the sign of an ill-spent youth. --attr. to Charles Ruppell, in D. Duncan _Life of Herbert Spencer_ [1908]. I can't see who's in the lead but it's either Oxford or Cambridge. --John Snagge (1904—1996) English sports commentator. Commentary on the 1949 Boat Race. Most sorts of diversion in men, children, and other animals, are an imitation of fighting. --Jonathan Swift (1667—1745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. _Thoughts on Various Subjects_ [1711] Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television. --Victoria Wood (1953- ) British writer and comedienne, _Mens Sana in Thingummy Doodah_ [1990] Our youth basketball team is back in action Wednesday at 8 PM in the recreation hall. Come out and watch us kill Christ the King. --Church notice board ----- taekwando (noun) [tay-kwahn-'do] A Korean martial arts technique based on an admixture of virtue and unarmed combat. Martial arts in Korea dates back 2000 years. Tae kwan do developed from su-bak, which emerged around 800 years ago.   SPORTSMANSHIP . . see "SPORTS" (above) You are the pits of the world! Vultures! Trash! --John McEnroe (1959— ) American tennis player. To fans, umpires, and reporters at Wimbeldon. end page | SACRED - SANTA CLAUS | SARCASM - SCHOOL | SCIENCE - SCULPTURE | SEA (THE) - SEEING | SELF - SELF-ESTEEM | SELF-EXAMINATION - SEMANTICS | SENATE (THE U.S.) - SERIOUSNESS | SEX | SEX SYMBOLS - SHEEP | SHIPS - SILENCE | SILLINESS - SINGING | SINGLE-MINDEDNESS - SKY | SLANDER - SMILES | SMOKING - SOCIETY | SOLDIERS - SOPHISTICATION | SORROW - SOUTH SEA | SPACE - SPEAKING | SPEECH - SPENDTHRIFTS | SPIDERS - SPY | SPORTS & SPORTSMANSHIP | STAGE (THE) - STERILIZATION | STOCK MARKET - STRANGERS | STRENGTH - SUBURBS | SUCCESS | SUFFERING - SUPREME COURT | SURPRISE - SYSTEM (THE) | | R | S | T | U - END | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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