Philosophy is not a spectator sport.

Nigel Warburton

Tags: philosophy active spectator sport



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If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

Vince Lombardi Jr.

Tags: sport



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Une civilisation sans la Science, ce serait aussi absurde qu'un poisson sans bicyclette.

Pierre Desproges

Tags: science conscience civilisation sport



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Voila bien la différence entre le singe et le footballeur. Le premier a trop de mains ou pas assez de pieds pour s'abaisser à jouer au football.

Pierre Desproges

Tags: football sport humanité singe



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Les hémorragies cérébrales sont moins fréquentes chez les amateurs et les joueurs de football que chez le reste de la population. Les cerveaux aussi.

Pierre Desproges

Tags: football sport cerveau



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Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

Winston S. Churchill

Tags: leisure golf sport recreation



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Who but the sports-mad [Norman] Mailer would liken the battle between God and the Devil to a game of American football? The contest, for sure, has with [sic] own laws (so that after God and the Devil 'tackle a guy, they don't kick him in the head'), but each side is not above cheating—with God breaking the rules occasionally by throwing in 'a miracle'. Strangely, Mailer doesn’t mention Jesus in this agonising analogy, but then the notion of the 'super-sub' may be an image too far even for him.

Christopher Hitchens

Tags: devil god religion miracles jesus sport norman-mailer book-review american-football



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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'.

Gideon Haigh

Tags: nationalism war sport orwell



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Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state of a football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

Nick Hornby

Tags: football sport



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... and Brian Dooher is down injured. And while he is, I'll tell ye a little story. I was in Times Square in New York last week, and I was missing the Championship back home. So I approached a newsstand and I said 'I suppose you wouldn't have the Kerryman would you?' To which the Egyptian man behind the counter replied 'do you want the North Kerry edition or the South Kerry edition?'. He had both, so I bought both. And Dooher is back on his feet...

Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh

Tags: sport gaa kerry tyrone



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