Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can…

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. Why do kids play football? They can get hurt on any play, can't they? Yet they…

— Irwin Shaw

I was playing college football, and I hurt my knee very badly my senior year, and I didn't want to get a real job.

— Kane

Boxing is like any other sport, like football, basketball, whatever, where there's a strategy you stick to in order to win.

— Demetrius Andrade

Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and…

— Warren Moon

Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.

— Roger Bannister

Sport, like life, hardly gives you second chances, certainly not in a pandemic era.

— Abhinav Bindra

I know it is a dangerous sport but this is something I like.

— Charles Leclerc

Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're…

— Campbell Scott

We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with…

— Michel de Montaigne

I'm a little bit intrepid when it comes to sport. I like to try new things.

— Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

We're in a very individual sport, but they like us not to be so individual. They'd rather have you look like every other cookie…

— Roy Nelson

Everybody that has ever played a professional sport would like to go out on their terms and very few get to.

— Chris Pronger

Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at…

— Roger Bannister

I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really…

— Daniel Bryan

It felt when I was growing up that sport was, like, the only thing you should do... if you do music, you're really different…

— Olly Murs