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"The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business."
"I love sports cars and want a Mercedes of an MG."
"I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic."
"Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers."
"Coaches try to beat each other from the ears up."
"When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content."
"All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy."
"Running isn't a sport because anyone can do it. Anything we can all do can't be a sport. I can run, you can run. My mother can run, you don't see her on the cover of Sports Illustrated do you?"
"The stronger women get, the more men love football."
"Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection."
"Sport has been called the last bastion of male domination. Unfortunately, there are others - Congress, for instance."
"Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success."
"Too often girls accept that of course the boys will get better lighting and seating at their sports events, of course the football team will get more attention, privileges, and space in the yearbook. We need to teach girls to look around and notice when they're being treated like second-class citizens, and then to insist on equal treatment."
"The act of sport remains a human act, unrelated to gender."
"An old cat sports not with her prey."
"The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing."
"When age is jocond it makes sport for death. [When age is jocund, it makes sport for death.]"
"It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle."
"In sports and journeys men are knowne. [In sports and journeys men are known.]"
"I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport."
