Every time I see an adult
on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human
race.
- H.G. Wells
What binds us makes us strong.
- Wellington
Lions Rugby
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must
keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
The simplest way of having a straight back is to have a strong
activated core.
- Tackling, Rugby
Smart
Good
things happen when you take the bat off your shoulder.
- Expression
Each individual has to be their own best coach.
- John Buchanan, Sports
Factor
Don't be a horse race, be marathon.
- Michael Franti, Everyone
deserves music
Many people would see the 70s as a critical decade in changing
cricket
almost from a civilised pastime, a leisuretime occupation, to
when it really became professional. People stopped playing cricket
on Saturdays away from their work, and they started to go to
work at cricket. Do you think commercialisation of the sport
has changed some of the civilities within it?
- Mick O'Regan, Sports
Factor
Play for the respect of your peers.
- Expression
Game Rules:
1. If the game is rigged so you can't win, find another game
or invent your own.
2. If you're not winning because you don't know the rules, learn
the rules.
3. If you know the rules but aren't willing to follow them,
there's either something wrong with the game or you need to
change something in yourself.
4. Don't play the game in a half-baked way. Either get all the
way in or all the way out.
5. It shouldn't be necessary for others to lose in order for
you to win. If others have to lose, re-evaluate the game's goals.
- Garry Hamilton, quoted in Paranoia
Play out of your skin.
- Popular expression
You can't kick the skin off rice pudding.
- Conversation
Look ahead for open spaces. Let young people be given the opportunity
of taking an active and not merely a passive interest in games.
It is often said that our young men are too much addicted to
outdoor games - cricket, football etc., but I think the contrary
is the case. They are possibly too much addicted to looking
at games, and that is not a healthy exercise. They like to congregate
in crowds, often cooped up in enclosures, and that leads to
barracking, cigarette smoking and even gambling on the result
of the game. A remedy for the gambling evil and an encouragement
of manly sports with the physical development and moral discipline
which healthy competition affords, lies not mainly in places
like the Sydney Cricket Ground. I look upon that institution
as the place of spectacle, as the university of sport.
- Joseph Maiden, Director of the Botanic Gardens, Rugby
League: More than just a game
The Japan National Rugby Team was once a mighty force that
has fallen in recent years. Led by a new French coach, Jean-Pierre
Elissalde, they appear to be on the rise. When Elissalde first
came on board, he assessed the team's basic problem -- the players
were too predictable. As they moved up the field, the ball was
passed between team members with a mechanical accuracy that
was easy for their opponents to predict, and thus consistently
topple. Elissalde urged his players 'to become like the bubbles
in a glass of champagne,' floating upward in unexpected and
elegantly fluid ways. The Japanese team had to learn how to
operate based upon intuition versus intellect.
- John Maeda, The
Laws of Simplicity
It's our game. They just play it.
- Fan's assessment of Australian footy
Confidence comes from winning.
- Johnny
Wilkinson
Sports keeps people from worrying about thing that matter in
their lives that they might have some idea of doing something
about ... Professional sports is perfect. It instills total
passivity.
- Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent
The weakness in Chomsky's argument is that it disregards how
the very passion we invest in sports can transform it from a
kind of mindless escape into a site of resistance.
Dave Zirin, What's
my name fool?
There is no joy in Mudville. Mighty Casey has struck out.
- Ernest L. Thayer
Your conversion obviously tops my try.
- Conversation
The reference only saw it once.
- Conversation
There is not just one way to play the game.
- Popular expression
No one is bigger than the game.
- Popular expression
Focus on the next play, not the one that's already taken place.
- Coaching tip
A tie is like kissing your sister.
- Duffy Daugherty
There's no crying in baseball.
- A league of their own
It's all over but the crying.
- Popular expression
We'll tell you when you lose.
- Conversation
In the United States,
soccer is the sport of the future ... and it always will be.
- Conversation
Make the nets bigger.
- Sportsnight
I'm the pitcher. You're the catcher. We have a special relationship.
- Seinfeld
Let the games begin.
- Expression
It takes a second to score a goal
- Conversation
But in a sporting world swimming in hype, corrupted by big
money, there is a purity here that is becoming.
- Rohit Brijnath, Country
First
The head needs a garage.
- NFL commercial,
ode to the hoodie
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