Sports Quote by Erin Hart Download Open image ““And what was sport, underneath, but a kind of sanitized, ritualized violence?”” — Erin Hart ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sports
“What was sport but a thin veneer over the factional fighting it had replaced—ritualized violence, bloody entertainment?” — Erin Hart Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Athletes, he believed, were simple, straightforward people, cruel and brutal if you like, but never petty. They knocked you down and hurt you, and… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“In a darkening world where the shadows of violence, political expediency, materialism and junk culture grow ever longer, sport as it is practised by… — Eamon Dunphy Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class. ” — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something.” — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“They talk about adrenaline, but Marder knew it was much more than adrenaline; it was a mystical cocktail that comes only from this one… — Michael Gruber Copy Share Image
“My true loves were and still are books and writing stories and daydreaming. Sports were merely a distraction keeping me from what I really… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Sport has a way of finding characters who se impact goes well beyond the playing fields, and touches the core of what life means.… — Anindya Dutta Copy Share Image
“And I played football so I knocked a few heads around there, but nothing out of the ordinary. I played baseball too but that’s… — C.C. Gibbs Copy Share Image
“Making yourself an outcast was one way to avoid the pain of having it done to you.” — Erin Hart Copy Share Image
“We’re made out of the water, the earth, the air of the places that fed our ancestors, quenched their thirst, the basic elements of… — Erin Hart Copy Share Image
“What was sport but a thin veneer over the factional fighting it had replaced—ritualized violence, bloody entertainment?” — Erin Hart Copy Share Image
“When did a person begin to emerge from that fantastical sea of childhood onto the dry land of adult existence?” — Erin Hart Copy Share Image
“believe that what happens in the world never really goes away. Everything that has been remains somehow, makes an impression. Some things make stronger… — Erin Hart Copy Share Image
“Was it possible for the living to haunt their fellow creatures? For something as intangible as the mere memory of a gesture to slip… — Erin Hart Copy Share Image
“All of us insist upon our illusions, upon substituting dreams and distorted memories for the real thing.” — Erin Hart Copy Share Image
“It seemed to him that delusion was the most natural of human states; it was honesty that was the aberration.” — Erin Hart Copy Share Image
“From the poorest places came the richest music—it had always been that way.” — Erin Hart Copy Share Image
If you take your eye off the ball or lose focus for even a minute you can lose a game against any team. — Felipe Anderson Copy Share Image
Outside Buckingham Palace, the Royal Standard flies only when the reigning monarch is in residence. Sadly, there's no similar flag outside The Woods Jupiter,… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life,… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
