Air Quote by Ian MacKaye

Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.

— Alistair Cooke

Sports is something that transcends generations, transcends backgrounds, cultures, races. And so the power of sports is real.

— Malcolm Jenkins

Sport is an art: it has incredible appeal everywhere on this earth, and it fills so many human hearts with passion that it's impossible…

— Frank Deford

Professional sports is a monster. It's not even real life. It's one of the few things in life, the economy goes bad, you still…

— Jermaine O'Neal

'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.

— Artie Lange

I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying…

— Red Smith

That's the reason why sports are so important to the fabric of the world. Real life sport is reality TV and it allows us…

— Matt Mitrione

This is what makes sports so amazing, that we can start a discussion around a table, in the newspaper, in the magazines, that will…

— Cam Newton

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

The business aspect of this sport is a contradiction to what it's really about, and that's knowing something for what it is and not…

— Eddie Alvarez

Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with…

— Richard Gilman

Sports occupies a central place in our society, and, as such, it is unavoidably cultural in nature and often engaged in societal issues.

— John Skipper