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"Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence."

Lewis H. Lapham 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 Lewis H. Lapham

  • "Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint."

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