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 SPORTS & SPORTSMANSHIP . . . SPORTS [QUOTES FOLLOW LINKS] see: BASEBALL BOXING COMPETITION CRICKET FISH/FISHING FOOTBALL GOLF HORSE RACING HUNTING LOSING MARATHONS OLYMPICS SKIING SOCCER SPORTSMANSHIP (below) TENNIS WINNING --- 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) Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. --attributed to Dave Barry (b. 1947) American humorist. [Of basketball:] The game is too long, the season is too long and the players are too long. --Jack Dolph (1928—1981) Commissioner of the American Basketball Association [1969—1972]. Attributed in Tim Dedopulos _The Best Book of Insults and Putdowns Ever!_ [ 2002]. 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.) --Francis Drake (c.1540—1596) English sailor and explorer. Sport is the ultimate super-religion, the one thing every Australian believes in passionately. Not to be keen on sport is, therefore, unclean, unmanly, even homosexual and definitely contrary to the ethics and super-religion of the nation. --Keith Dunstan (1925— ) Australian journalist. _Knockers_ [1972] '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. --Wally Horn (b. 1933) American politician. As State Senator (Iowa), talking about girls sports in school — and specifically, what size basketball they should play with. Quoted in Richard Lederer _Fractured English_ [1996]. 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. "The Sporting Spirit" [1945] How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo? --Jacques Plante (1929—1986) Canadian professional hockey player. Quoted in J.R. Colombo _Colombo's All Time Great Canadian Quotations_ [1994]. 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]. If Bill Shoemaker were six-feet tall and weighed 200 pounds, he could beat anybody in any sport. Standing less than five feet and weighing around 100, he beats everybody at what he does. Pound for pound, he's got to be the greatest living athlete. --Red [Walter] Smith (1905—1982) American sports columnist and broadcaster. _The Red Smith Reader_ [1982] 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: "CHARACTER" see: "FAIRNESS" see "SPORTS" (above) Sports do not build character. They reveal it. --Heywood Hale Broun (1918—2001) American sportswriter and sports commentator; son of Heywood Broun. Quoted in James Michener _Sports in America_ [1976]. Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist. --Alvin Dark (b. 1922) American Major League baseball player and manager. Quoted in Michael Benson _Winning Words: Classic Quotes from the World of Sports_ [2008]. - In November 1940, Cornell was cruising through a second year at the top of college football, undefeated in 18 straight games. When the Big Red went to New Hampshire to play hapless Dartmouth, it was hardly expected to be a contest. But the game, played in snow flurries on a slushy field, proved to be a shocker. Going into the last minute of the game, Dartmouth was up, 3-0. Cornell finally put together a drive to the goal line and on the final play of the game scored the winning touchdown. There was just one problem: Referee Red Friesell had lost track of how many snaps Cornell had taken inside the 10-yard line. The touchdown was scored on a fifth down. Dartmouth protested, but the game was over. Cornell could have adopted the modern moral standard that anything the ref allows is allowed. Instead, when the game films showed conclusively that Cornell had won on an extra, illegal snap, the players, coach, athletic director and university president agreed to forfeit the game and did so graciously. Coach Carl Snavely sent a telegram to Hanover, N.H., saying that Cornell 'without reservation concede[s] the victory to Dartmouth with hearty congratulations to you and a gallant Dartmouth team.' Dartmouth wired back that it accepted the victory and saluted its 'honorable and honored opponent.' As Arthur Daley wrote in the New York Times that week: 'Cornell had the sportsmanship to yield a success it felt it had not rightfully earned.' --Eric Felten "Playing Fair, Even When Umpires Are Blind" _The Wall Street Journal_ [27 November 2009] - You are the pits of the world! Vultures! Trash! --John McEnroe (1959— ) American tennis player. To fans, umpires, and reporters at Wimbeldon. For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks — not that you won or lost — But how you played the game. --Grantland Rice (1880—1954) American sports writer. "Alumunus Football", l. 63 [1908] end page | SACRED PLACES - 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 - SHYNESS | SICKNESS - SILENCE | SILLINESS - SINGING | SINGLE-MINDEDNESS - SKY | SLANDER - SLAVERY | SLEEP - SMILES | SMOKING - SOCIETY | SOLDIERS - SOPHISTICATION | SORROW - SOUTH SEA | SPACE - SPAM | SPEECH | SPEECHES - SPENDTHRIFTS | SPIDERS - SPY | SPORTS & SPORTSMANSHIP | STAGE (THE) - STERILIZATION | STOCK MARKET - STRANGERS | STRENGTH - SUBURBS | SUCCESS | SUFFERING - SUMMER | SUN - SUPREME COURT | SURPRISE - SYSTEM (THE) | | R | S | T | U - END | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The Reviews | |
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