"International sport is war without shooting."

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"Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much."

Nigel Mansell, British Athlete

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"I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation."

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"One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer."

Will McDonough, American Writer

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"All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League."

A. Bartlett Giamatti, American Educator

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"So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track."

Bo Jackson, American Athlete

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"It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer."

Patricia Heaton, American Actress

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"When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games."

Eddie Murray, American Athlete

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"I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports."

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"I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream."

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"A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase."

Family

"He seemed to be lying on the bed. He could not see very well. Her youthful, rapacious face, with blackened eyebrows, leaned over him as he sprawled there."'How about my present?' she demanded, half wheedling, half menacing."Never mind that now. To work! Come here. Not a bad mouth. Come here. Come closer. Ah!"No. No use. Impossible. The will but not the way. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Try again. No. The booze, it must be. See Macbeth. One last try. No, no use. Not this evening, I'm afraid."All right, Dora, don't you worry. You'll get your two quid all right. We aren't paying by results."He made a clumsy gesture. 'Here, give us that bottle. That bottle off the dressing-table.'"Dora brought it. Ah, that's better. That at least doesn't fail."

Struggle

"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."

Advertising

"Cut off from contact with the outer world, and with the past, the citizen of Oceania is like a man in interstellar space, who has no way of knowing which direction is up and which is down. The rulers of such a state are absolute, as the Pharaohs or the Caesars could not be."

Isolation

"It is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King' than of stealing from a poor box."

Ethics

"Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception. Every nationalist is capable of the most flagrant dishonesty, but he is also - since he is conscious of serving something bigger than himself - unshakeably certain of being in the right."

Politics

"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."

Liberty

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"Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much."

"I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation."

"One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer."

"All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League."

"So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track."

"It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer."

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"Cut off from contact with the outer world, and with the past, the citizen of Oceania is like a man in interstellar space, who has no way of knowing which direction is up and which is down. The rulers of such a state are absolute, as the Pharaohs or the Caesars could not be."

"It is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King' than of stealing from a poor box."

"Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception. Every nationalist is capable of the most flagrant dishonesty, but he is also - since he is conscious of serving something bigger than himself - unshakeably certain of being in the right."

"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."