Isabella Bird Quotes

A person who knows cock fighting is better off than a learned scholar

I know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.

The evening commenced with bear-baiting, badger and coon drawing, wolf-hunting and rat-killing. The bear was baited by five dogs until he caught them in his paws and crunched them half to death, amid the yells and cheers of the assembled fancy...

From what I hear, dogfighting is a sport. It's just behind closed doors.

Cockfighting has always been my idea of a great sport -- two armed entrées battling to see who'll be dinner.

Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting.

We live in a world where finding fault in others seems to be the favorite blood sport. It has long been the basis of political campaign strategy. It is the theme of much television programming across the world. It sells newspapers. Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections.

The attraction in this city is money, from gambling. What you are if you work here is a shill.

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

Killing a baby seal is about the easiest thing you can do if you're inclined to be sadistic; you certainly can't say there's any sport in it - the animal is totally defenceless.

Our cock won’t fight.

Daily Fantasy Sports has nothing to do with sports. The “game,” such as it is, uses sporting events the way the lottery uses ping-pong balls. Being into DFS because you’re a sports fan is like being into poker because you’re just generally a big fan of clovers, diamonds and spades. Indeed, the best players don’t know anything about sports at all, a fact they are cheerfully honest, even boastful, about.

I remember playing in Union City, and we had crap games after we finished playing at night. We would go next door to the cab stand where they were playing gin rummy and betting $1,000 a hand.

I was a gambler when I was a kid, so when we got to Las Vegas, it was like Mecca.

The horses forced into the chuckwagon races die of heart attacks, broken necks, broken legs, and other injuries. It'd be easy to get off on western tradition without this bloody spectacle. Dude, it's the Old West, not ancient Rome!

There's obviously a lot of controversy around the issue of hunting as there is around gambling, and I like these stories where there is a moral dimension, stories that force you to think about your prejudices about a subject and explore the extent to which they are justified.

Connie Bennett, the guys used to stake her, she was so good.

For me, being a part of the ASPCA is a great way to tie in my love for animals and my love for New York City. Whether it's fighting puppy mills or working with the NYPD to prosecute people who abuse animals or breaking up fight rings, it's an incredible part of my city life.

It wasn't a popular thing to be a professional poker player in the '80s.

I am not, and have never been, a supporter of cockfighting or any other forms of animal cruelty.

I was mad-keen on poker as a kid. It was like the snooker, pulling me into that same smokey atmosphere I loved.

Bullfighting is every bit as ghoulish and savage as its critics warn, but it is equally as powerful and moving as its supporters insist. Perhaps the most vexing aspect about it is that neither group is wrong: they are both telling the truth.

Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.

Casino games are the one kind of content that has stood the test of time for decades.

I have no arguments to defend how brutal and disturbing a ritual the corrida is. Like all tragedies, no matter the beauty created, there are no happy endings. If it is indeed an art form, bullfighting is the most disturbing I have ever witnessed.