Boxing Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Sports is a bunch of people gathering around, watching something that they're not actually connected to - they're just emotionally connected.

— George Stroumboulopoulos

An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being...that…

— Aimee Mullins

Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally…

— George A. Sheehan

Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an…

— George A. Sheehan

People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them.

— Daley Thompson

We always were competing, no matter what it was, and it always ended up getting too rough and someone crying or someone getting a…

— T. J. Watt

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

In no other sport must the spectator move.

— John Updike

A lot of sport is being comfortable with being uncomfortable.

— Becky Sauerbrunn

Sports have an amazing way of banding people together from all walks of life, building relationships that would have never happened.

— Kurt Warner

Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate…

— Daley Thompson

Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

— William Cowper