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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
– Albert Einstein
But in a sporting world swimming in hype, corrupted by big money, there is a purity here that is becoming.
– Rohit Brijnath, Country First
You should wear with pride the scars on your skin. They’re a map of the adventures and the places you’ve been.
– Poi Dog Pondering, U-Li-La-Lu
At this stage of the game you need to be consistent and keep up to your mates.
– Virtual Rugby
Play for the respect of your peers.
– Popular expression
Play ball
– Popular expression (baseball)
Is it better to play a sport badly, or watch others do it well?
– Sports Factor
Winners are grinners.
– Popular saying
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
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
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
If you want your voice to be heard, you have to be at the game.
– 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 — 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
They’ve had a good innings. (He had a good life.)
– Popular expression adapted from cricket.
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
Act like you’ve been there before and you’re going back again.
– Popular expression, American football
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
No more standing on the sidelines.
– Popular saying
It takes a second to score a goal
– Conversation
Para el ultimo etapa necesitamos el apoyo del público.
– Pedro Martínez, Noticias 2 de Noviembre 1986
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