Harm Quote by Larry Holmes

I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm…

— Jonathan Gottschall

This boldness in telling the truth overshadows sport greatly. You couldn't get Joe Frazier or no boxer on this show and get interest in…

— Muhammad Ali

The media loves to spend a lot of time talking about itself and do a lot of navel-gazing, which the general public isn't quite…

— Amy Walter

Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.

— Alice Dreger

Why, when an athlete says something, why is it downplayed or considered not OK? I've always challenged that notion.

— Jaylen Brown

The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper.

— Robert Lipsyte

It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.

— Keith David

The 'New York Daily News' called me the most reviled athlete ever in sports history in New York. I don't listen to them.

— Stephon Marbury

“Sport is bad for you!”

— Wendy Lou Jones

The tragic incident of Luis Salom reminds us that our sport, our passion, is dangerous. We know it but, in a way, we don't…

— Valentino Rossi

We're professional athletes. We're the ones that make that decision to put ourselves at risk and in the position of bodily harm. We should…

— Jon Fitch

“Athletes, he believed, were simple, straightforward people, cruel and brutal if you like, but never petty. They knocked you down and hurt you, and…

— E.M. Forster