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"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."

George Orwell on Sports

More quotes about Sports

  • "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

    Michael Jordan on Sports

  • "It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."

    Mark Twain on Sports

  • "Golf is a good walk spoiled."

    Mark Twain on Sports

  • "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

    Hunter S. Thompson on Sports

  • "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

    Henry David Thoreau on Sports

More quotes by George Orwell

  • "In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."

  • "Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."

  • "The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."

  • "Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below."

  • "I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment."

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