Adolescence Quote by Lewis Thomas

I do honestly believe that, in the 21st century, sport is the most significant cultural element in this imperfect world. It calls for serious…

— Frank Deford

We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with…

— Michel de Montaigne

...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as "the sport…

— Chuck Klosterman

Everything for me started with my love of the sport. In society we're losing the fun with kids and pushing success on them too…

— Shawn Johnson

Life, after we'd had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports.

— Barbara Holland

I sincerely believe that sport, particularly in the hands of young people, has the power to change the world.

— Cafu

I just hope, in terms of legacy, that more kids want to choose a life in sport that they are more active and getting…

— Denise Lewis

“Athletics lasts for such a short period of time. It ends for people. But while it lasts, it creates this make-believe world where normal…

— H.G. Bissinger

I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good…

— Sebastian Coe

I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had…

— Cathy Rigby

Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair.

— Nelson Mandela

If I were to be critical of the sport in our country in general, I think we have failed ourselves miserably because everyone is…

— Jesse Marsch