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Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. – Duffy DaughertyRate it:
I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport. – Bill WattersonRate it:
In Australia, sport isn't just something people watch, it's something they participate in, and they particularly do it at a community level, it's all about getting life back to as normal as it can be in a COVID-safe world. – Scott MorrisonRate it:
Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. When the work stops, the dream dissapears. – Jim DietzRate it:
Sport feels the heart. Life feels the love. (Le sport éprouve le cœur. La vie éprouve l'amour) – Charles de LEUSSERate it:
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. – Lewis MumfordRate it:
Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. – BionRate it:
I don't have regrets. In any sport, the feeling of regret is a sign of indiscipline. London has passed, basically London is over.” – Eliud KipchogeRate it:
Football is not a contact sport, it's a collision sport - dancing is a contact sport. – Vince LombardiRate it:
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. – James Anthony FroudeRate it:
For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard... – William ShakespeareRate it:
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. – George Bernard ShawRate it:
I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of a hill. – Erma BombeckRate it:
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. – P. J. O'RourkeRate it:
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the godsThey kill us for their sport. – William ShakespeareRate it:
' It's a sport that really unites people it's not like in Australia or in Bali( where) there's so many surfers. – Surfer Sonia Lynn GabrielRate it:
( Empics Sport) According to the outlet, though her fellow passengers were free to walk off after a 20 minute delay, Wafula Strike was left neglected to deplane, though she had booked assistance weeks before she traveled. CAPITAL AIRLINES PASSENGERS TERRIFIED OVER MIDAIR DROP :' I DO N'T WANT TO DIE' The 49-year-old wheelchair racer and disability rights campaigner told BBC she was left waiting for 45 minutes before a London Stansted ground crew staffer came to help her. I felt angry and very neglected, it's not good when you are abandoned on a flight and everyone else is picking up their bags and walking off. – Wafula StrikeRate it:
( It's) a layman's sport, anybody with a license can come up. – Kai TarkianenRate it:
(Sprinter) Usain Bolt is the most tested athlete, male or female, in any sport on the planet. Reality and perception often get badly tangled, we take this very very seriously and we need to make sure that the public believe what they watch in a stadium is legitimate. – The BritonRate it:
(The NFL has) a bit of an issue with their collective bargaining agreement, which has not lent itself to the same, let's say, progressive anti-doping program that the Major League Baseball people have, and similarly at the NHL, i think there needs to be an attitudinal shift from the players. They should be making sure that they're delivering clean sport. They should be making sure that they're not protecting the bad guys, the one or two who may try to cheat or actually cheat. – David HowmanRate it:
A bicycle is no longer a kid's toy. It's enjoyed by adults, and it's great, it's such a fantastic sport, it's great exercise, it's low-impact, it's been shown to have all these cardiovascular benefits and to improve your own general well-being. – Benjamin BreyerRate it:
A lot of our sport is all about decision making made on the fly, you're presented with a set of circumstances and you have to make a split-second decision. – New Zealand AlehRate it:
A lot of people see cars racing and they love the sport for the sporting element of cars winning, and racing and passing, behind all of that is pure science. It's the horse power, and it's drag and it's aerodynamics. – Brent DewarRate it:
A lot of people who have never done this before are really becoming competitive and putting a name out there for the sport. – Melissa RomeroRate it:

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

In Australia, sport isn't just something people watch, it's something they participate in, and they particularly do it at a community level, it's all about getting life back to as normal as it can be in a COVID-safe world.

– Scott MorrisonRate it:

Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. When the work stops, the dream dissapears.

– Jim DietzRate it:

Sport feels the heart. Life feels the love. (Le sport éprouve le cœur. La vie éprouve l'amour)

– Charles de LEUSSERate it:

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.

– Lewis MumfordRate it:

Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.

– BionRate it: