Quotes about "sport"

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Sell also: athletics, boast, feature, frolic, fun, gambol, lark, mutant, mutation, play, romp, sportsman, variation

Definitions and meanings of word "sport"

• Noun: an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition

• Noun: the occupation of athletes who compete for pay

• Noun: (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine

• Noun: a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances; examples: "a good sport", "a poor sport"

• Noun: someone who engages in sports

• Noun: (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration

• Noun: verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously); examples: "he became a figure of fun", "he said it in sport"

• Verb: wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; example: "she was sporting a new hat"

• Verb: play boisterously; examples: "The children frolicked in the garden", "the gamboling lambs in the meadows", "The toddlers romped in the playroom"

Featured authors with quotes containing word "sport"

Pierre de Coubertin
10 quotes about sport
French Leader, Historian, Educator
Thursday 1 January 1863 - Thursday 2 September 1937
Mike Krzyzewski
8 quotes about sport
American Coach
Born Thursday 13 February 1947
Ian Botham
5 quotes about sport
English Athlete
Born Thursday 24 November 1955
Avery Brundage
4 quotes about sport
American Athlete
Wednesday 28 September 1887 - Thursday 8 May 1975
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
6 quotes about sport
American Athlete
Born Thursday 24 February 1977
Maurice Greene
3 quotes about sport
American Athlete
Born Tuesday 23 July 1974
Lynn Davies
4 quotes about sport
British Athlete
Born Wednesday 20 May 1942
Haile Gebrselassie
4 quotes about sport
Ethiopian Athlete
Born Wednesday 18 April 1973
Michael Phelps
4 quotes about sport
American Athlete
Born Sunday 30 June 1985
Billie Jean King
3 quotes about sport
American Athlete
Born Monday 22 November 1943
David Millar
4 quotes about sport
British Athlete
Born Tuesday 4 January 1977
Claudio Reyna
2 quotes about sport
American Athlete, Director
Born Friday 20 July 1973

I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways.

Roland Emmerich

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Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

Roland Emmerich

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It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world.

Roland Emmerich

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Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

Roland Emmerich

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I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

Roland Emmerich

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If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it.

Roland Emmerich

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If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can change lives.

Roland Emmerich

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Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.

Roland Emmerich

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To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

Roland Emmerich

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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.

Roland Emmerich

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Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

Roland Emmerich

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I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

Roland Emmerich

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The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it.

Roland Emmerich

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You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do.

Roland Emmerich

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Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.

Roland Emmerich

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I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.

Roland Emmerich

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There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

Roland Emmerich

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Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.

Roland Emmerich

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Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

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