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Sports Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in…
- All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel…
- When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
- Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
- When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch…
- When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.
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- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
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- If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. — Lance Armstrong
- The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight. — Arthur Ashe
- There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.' — Arthur Ashe
- Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch… — Red Auerbach
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen
- Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is… — Richard Bach