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Quotes about sports
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There is a syndrome in sports called paralysis by analysis. (Bridges Todd)
There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. (Bridges Todd)
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture. (Bridges Todd)
So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated. (Bridges Todd)
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The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. (Bridges Todd)
Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games. (Bridges Todd)
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see -- not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness. (Bridges Todd)
Sports should always be fun. (Bridges Todd)
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense. (Bridges Todd)
The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports. (Bridges Todd)
In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and competition. The developing athletes who make the fastest progress and those who ultimately become their best make extensive use of mental imagery. They use it daily as a means of directing what will happen in training, and as a way of pre-experiencing their best competition performances. (Bridges Todd)
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting. (Bridges Todd)
Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all. (Bridges Todd)
Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money. (Bridges Todd)
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. (Bridges Todd)
Skiing: the art of catching cold and going broke while rapidly heading nowhere at great personal risk. (Bridges Todd)
Sports do not build character. They reveal it. (Bridges Todd)
I'm really sad that as far as the Olympics, women's boxing still hasn't been allowed. (Bridges Todd)
I spent 23 years in Taekwondo, 23 years kicking and the past seven years boxing. (Bridges Todd)
Boxing is a really a hard sport to imitate. I think kicking is a little bit different, but boxing-that's tough. (Bridges Todd)
I'm very, very sporty - I ski, I fish, I do field hockey and tons of stuff. (Bridges Todd)
I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it. (Bridges Todd)
I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy. (Bridges Todd)
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper. (Bridges Todd)
I was a high school basketball player and high jumper, so I thought I could help (Bridges Todd)
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