Sports Quote by Graeme Simsion

“With sports, you have no time to reflect. You just do.”

— Terri Giuliano Long

“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

“If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here…

— Richard Ford

“Never make sport, no matter how lighthearted, of someone’s vocation.”

— Rodney Ross

“He never bothered listening to sports; the bored him, every one of them.”

— Michael Finkel

“I love that everyone's into sports, that no one even talks about loving it 'cause it's too obvious. It's the air we breathe.”

— Justine Larbalestier

“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

“It’s a metaphor for life. If sports don’t matter, then life doesn’t matter.”

— Emily Giffin

“Today, we are the only people who are more likely to own a professional sports team than to play for one.”

— Celso Cukierkorn

“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

“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

“Great athletes can at once play the game and observe it as a whole.”

— Ronald A. Heifetz