Books Quote by Isabella Bird

Cockfighting has always been my idea of a great sport -- two armed entrées battling to see who'll be dinner.

— P. J. O'Rourke

This is not a sport. It's only a sport before and after the fight. In the cage it's not a sport - it's a…

— Marlon Vera

One of the things I've come to learn over the years is that the fight itself is a sport, but everything around it is…

— Jon Fitch

I know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.

— Wilbur Smith

Bullfighting has some of the elements of a sport or contest, and in the United States most people think of it as a sport,…

— Bette Ford

In MMA, it's a sport, but it's entertainment, too.

— Henry Cejudo

No sport is more geared to the warrior's code of honour, pride and respect. That's why I love boxing. It's mano a mano. One…

— Carl Froch

To me a fight is a fight, it's not a contest or a martial arts competition, it's a fight.

— Jimi Manuwa

Bullfighting is anachronistic - you enter into a bullring and you're leaving behind the values of the world outside the ring. I suppose that…

— Bette Ford

I think boxing is a singular sport, because the stakes are so high and because it just appeals to people's primal instincts. It's a…

— Aaron Eckhart

Only bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto racing are sports, the rest are merely games.

— Barnaby Conrad

Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and ingenuity, are…

— Joyce Carol Oates