Gladiators Quotes
20 quotes by 20 authors
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I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.
— Yannick Noah
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I have been happy . . . in believing that . . . whatever follies we may be led into as to foreign nations, we…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that…
— Anna Funder
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In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a…
— Joseph Barbera
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I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul…
— Paul Verlaine
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We are the modern day gladiators.
— Tito Ortiz
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After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to…
— Michel de Montaigne
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If we are to elevate the game of chess to a popular sport, grandmasters must become gladiators, otherwise the game will languish on the periphery,…
— Michael Basman
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Versace pythons. Louis Aviators. Balenciagas & they gotta be the gladiators.
— Nicki Minaj
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In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the vivid and particular:…
— William Strunk, Jr.
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And be silent for the most part, or else make only the most necessary remarks, and express these in few words. But rarely, and when…
— Epictetus
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I love Greek mythology, I love gladiators, I love war stuff.
— Tyson Chandler
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On 'American Gladiators,' I got to pummel a lot of people off a pyramid with a giant Q-tip. It was so much fun to wrestle…
— Gina Carano
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For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very proud of that. And with anything Roman or gladiators,…
— Chris Hemsworth
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Gladiators seek to best all, it is how they survive
— Spartacus
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Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
— Nikki Giovanni
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Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.
— Noam Chomsky
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We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been sublimated in sports,…
— Kenneth Oppel
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Go back to bed, America, your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed America, your government is in control. Here,…
— Bill Hicks
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When I came up, football was about gladiators . . . When we hit somebody and he didnt get up, we didnt hold hands with…
— Patrice O'Neal
Who Wrote These Gladiators Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 20 Gladiators Quotes as follows: