Sport Culture Quotes

Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.

Let us celebrate the spirit of sport through the National Games

We were the Spice Boys.

It's one thing if you live in London and you're rooting for Chelsea or you're in New York and you love the Giants or Jets and no matter who's on the team you're into it. It's different in tennis; you're sort of your own guy, so you have to reach out and grab a person in a different way.

Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.

In Britain, we don't appreciate people who have been a major success in sport. It is grudgingly given to you.

Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.

Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically.

I think it's fantastic to be here in England. They live football: football is living, and living is football.

I had an Ultimate jersey on in my first video. I get a lot of comments about it, because a lot of tech people don't know anything about Ultimate.

When I take my free-kicks, I think in Portuguese, and at most, I'll do the celebrating in my native tongue.

That's exactly the reason I'm leaving RCR because you've got those punk-ass kids coming up. They've got no respect for what they do in this sport and they've had everything fed to them with a spoon.

We see the game as art as much as sport. That helped us nurture not only the game's traditions but to develop its mythology: America's Team, The Catch, The Frozen Tundra.

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.

British swimming have created that environment where it is very friendly. And I think it is part of our sporting culture. Rainy Sunday, you go to the local swimming pool.

I'm not a 'Steel Magnolias' kind of girl. I'm kind of like a guy. My favorite movie is 'Caddyshack.'

I think snowboarders have a unique experience when it comes to the Olympics because we have a pretty frequent competition circuit in addition to the games. So it's not a sport where your big moment is just once every four years.

Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.

In Cuba we use our champions to promote the sport.

Early Nineties - that was what it was all about: how people dressed on the terraces.

There are no rules in snowboarding.

I always say that polo, for you to pursue a career, mainly any sport, you have to be born in the right place. If you're born in Hawaii, you surf. If you're born in Austria, you probably will ski. If you're born in Argentina, you most likely ride horses and have a chance to play polo.

I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.

To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.