Fair play Quote by George Orwell

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, and disregard of all the rules.

— George Orwell

“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

“[Football] has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in…

— George Orwell

“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

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

Who could doubt that sport is a crucial window for the propagation of fair play and justice? After all, fair play is a value…

— Nelson Mandela

“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

“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

Sports are trivial compared to matters of war and peace, but some parallels apply.

— Pete Hoekstra

“Sports teach us the value of facing yourself and others honestly. You can only grow if you let go of denial and embrace what…

— Corey Irwin

Sports is like literature. People watch it and if it's beautiful and it's non-violent, whatever messages that you see, people can read into it…

— Gabe Polsky

Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant

— Richard Attias