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Sport Quotes by Barry S. Strauss
- The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to…
- Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you did it right.
- The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals to…
- It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea with…
More Sport Quotes
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen
- I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting. — David Bailey
- In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses. — Russell Baker
- The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen… — Roger Bannister
- Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? — Dave Barry
- Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper… — Evan Bayh
- Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing. — Boris Becker
- Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you… — David Beckham
- People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular. — Andrea Bocelli
- You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport. — Elayne Boosler
- To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and… — Ian Botham