Defeat Quote by Nick Hornby

Misery makes sport to mock itself.

— William Shakespeare

“Sports have nothing to do with fair play. They are bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in…

— George Orwell

“Misery, like yoga, is not a competitive sport”

— Matt Haig

“This is the very structure of sports journalism: deification and damnation, death and resurrection, failure and redemption. You succeed so you can falter so…

— Will Leitch

“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

“Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.”

— Jerome K. Jerome

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair

— Nelson Mandela

“Sport has a way of finding characters who se impact goes well beyond the playing fields, and touches the core of what life means.…

— Anindya Dutta

“If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here…

— Richard Ford

“This sport demands only one thing from you. Your all.”

— Fredrik Backman

“In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.”

— Ivo Andric

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

— Nelson Mandela