Gym class Quote by David Sedaris

Athletes often start life at the opposite end of the wealth and prestige spectrum, but as soon as they exhibit an unusual talent for…

— Jeffrey Kluger

In the old days, athletes got worked up about the strict rules - today they get worked up about these rules being ignored elsewhere.

— Travis Tygart

I'm sure there are people in all sports that bend the rules but I'm not going to sit here and point the finger.

— B. J. Penn

“Sports have nothing to do with fair play. They are bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in…

— George Orwell

I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. In sports there are absolute rules. It's not, What about this? What about…

— Jack Nicholson

Why, when an athlete says something, why is it downplayed or considered not OK? I've always challenged that notion.

— Jaylen Brown

Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.

— Alice Dreger

Sports is one of those few things left in our society where, as soon as you step on the court, or get in the…

— Justin Lin

Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?

— David Millar

You can take 100 penalties in training, but when you go out on that pitch in front of all those people and the television…

— Alan Shearer

“All sports are violent and represent primitive nature of our being, and before one learns that, one gets absorbs into the coded violence of…

— Raj Doctor

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very…

— Roger Bannister