Quote by Jarod Kintz

“I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.”

— Don Johnson

“We were careless and wild, and I suppose we could be thought of as a sign of the life the war was being fought…

— John Knowles

“It was a stupid thing to hold onto, but when one doesn't have much to celebrate in the way of physical attributes, ankles matter.”

— Eloisa James

“Some guys are the type of people who bring brass knuckles to a fight. I've always thought it prudent to bring some running shoes.”

— Jarod Kintz

“[The Spartans] should not make war often, or long, with the same enemy, lest that they should train and instruct them in war, by…

— Plutarch

“And now to all those who fought and will fight again. Those who struggled and bled and battled with all their strength.”

— Jay Allan

“What was sport but a thin veneer over the factional fighting it had replaced—ritualized violence, bloody entertainment?”

— Erin Hart

“Of every One-Hundred men, Ten shouldn't even be there, Eighty are nothing but targets, Nine are real fighters... We are lucky to have them...They…

— Hericletus

“Back in Nina’s large Spartan bedroom, the three of them plunked their sore, beat-up frames into the same seats they’d chosen before the madness.”

— Christa Faust

“Yet this wasn’t like sports, let alone sports movies. The roles weren’t fixed, nor the meaning of the scaffolding. It didn’t have to be…

— Adam Levin

“It takes more than one kick in the pants to reverse a lifetime of unplanned apathy.”

— Paul Neilan

“They talk about adrenaline, but Marder knew it was much more than adrenaline; it was a mystical cocktail that comes only from this one…

— Michael Gruber