#ports

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#bull #bulls #fights #people #win

I'm a sports guy. Football, God, I flip out. ↗

— David Boreanaz

#football #god #guy #i #out

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me. ↗

— Jack Brickhouse

#dry #entertainment #first #foremost #i

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job. ↗

— William Sanderson

#because #consistent #delusion #french #grandeur

Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war. The human beauty we're talking about here is beauty of a particular type; it might be called kinetic beauty. Its power and appeal are universal. It has nothing to do with sex or cultural norms. What it seems to have to do with, really, is human beings' reconciliation with the fact of having a body. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#beauty

Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a person courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels the will to endurance. It is not merely a physical development then. Sport, rightly understood, is an occupation of the whole person, and while perfecting the body as an instrument of the mind, it also makes the mind itself a more refined instrument for the search and communication of truth…. ↗

— Pope Pius XII

#sports-inspirational #communication

The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start. ↗

— John Bingham

#running #sports #courage

Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it...and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again! ↗

— Jack London

#sports #life

If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt. ↗

— Dean Martin

#drink #drive #even #putt #you

I see great things in baseball. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#sports #baseball