Addiction Quote by Thorstein Veblen

Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially…

— Viktor E. Frankl

Morality has nothing to do with sports. Bad people can be good at sports and good people can be bad at sports.

— Greg Howard

Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under…

— George Will

One theme that fascinates me is cognitive enhancement. It seems only a matter of time until we live in a world where steroids for…

— Ben Casnocha

Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.

— Mason Cooley

“In a darkening world where the shadows of violence, political expediency, materialism and junk culture grow ever longer, sport as it is practised by…

— Eamon Dunphy

The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which…

— Jacques Ellul

The study of motivation goes back to the Greeks. Their sports were essential to their education. They saw in sports the integration of body,…

— George A. Sheehan

I do think, as crazy as it sounds, that sports is an addiction and that it should be accorded some of the same supports…

— Steve Almond

The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports.

— Anonymous

Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals.

— Harsha Bhogle

“All sports are violent and represent primitive nature of our being, and before one learns that, one gets absorbs into the coded violence of…

— Raj Doctor