Quote by H.L. Mencken

All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all…

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Rodney Ross

“You are going to love the sports here. Snow skiing and water-skiing and rock climbing and all kinds of extreme sports. I give you…

— Cynthia Hand

“it sometimes happened that you would, in the middle of your exertions, be discouraged by the absurdity of what you were in the process…

— Édouard Levé

I'm a Christian who happens to be an athlete, not the other way around.

— Andre Ward

“The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. Athletics don’t make…

— George Santayana

“He rubbed his chin. “Then you have to believe that living as a Christian is in itself good. That renunciation, not succumbing to sin,…

— Jo Nesbø

Christ always had a passion for whatever He was doing. That's how I try to define myself as an athlete. That's the example I…

— Torii Hunter

“Sport, truth, like art, is in the eye of the beholder. You believe what you choose and I'll believe what I know”

— John Berendt

“Sports represent a shared vision of how we continue, as individual, team, or community, to experience a happiness or absence of care so intense,…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

“The truth is that I've never cared anything about sports. In PE, I do my best to get hit with the dodgeball on the…

— Natalie Lloyd

“...junior athletics is but one facet of the real gem: life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.”

— David Foster Wallace