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As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work. — Avery Brundage
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership. — Daley Thompson
Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music. — Avery Brundage
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. — Pierre de Coubertin
Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. — Bill Tilden
Any sport that comes from Scotland is good! — Leslie Nielsen
As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid. — Irvin S. Cobb
There was an old man of Orleans, Who was given to eating of beans; Till once out of sport, he swallowed a quart, That dyspeptic… — Edward Lear
I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies. — Anna Kournikova
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was… — Lance Armstrong
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem… — Steven Chu
It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes. — Richard Hamming
All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win… — Spiro T. Agnew
There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you can share with… — Kelly Slater
I look at sport and competition as something that has been personally enormously beneficial to me. It's helped me create life skills. And if we… — Unknown Author
A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent… — Mike Krzyzewski
They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior… — Oscar Robertson
I'm a UFC fighter, a macho-type sport. I am a heterosexual guy in a tough macho sport, which is exactly the reason I feel a… — Rashad Evans
What we should be very concerned about is the excesses and the abuses. Where we see hunts where the fox is torn away out of… — Unknown Author
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law. — Pierre de Coubertin
Love your sport. Never do it to please someone else; it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work. Compete… — Peggy Fleming
The indoor game is much more of a team game, having to work effectively with a group of 15 to 20 people, striving to improve… — Karch Kiraly
I grew up on the beach and played side-out scoring all my life, but rally scoring is better for our sport. There is pressure on… — Holly McPeak

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