Sports Quotes by George Will

12 Sports quotes by George Will

Will’s commentary is a crisp, intellectual shortcut for anyone looking for a measured view of sport. Though brief, the 12 quotes each offer a clear, reasoned glimpse into the cultural side of competition.

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Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

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Sports is the toy department of life.

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Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.

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[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings.

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There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of…

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Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes,…

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It is an old baseball joke that big-inning baseball is affirmed in the Bible, in Genesis. "In the big inning, God created...

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Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage,…

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Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is…

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I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will.…

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Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a…

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In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a…

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Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

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As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.

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Hart is still like that little tub of vaguely milklike gunk that comes with airline coffee. It is labeled a "nondairy" product. Fine: we…

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The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture…

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When I'm in my car, I'm listening to books, audio books, always.

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Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their…

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“Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.”

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I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism I felt…

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The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.

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Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.

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