Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
Sports is like a war without the killing.
It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
Sport allows people to come together, but politics divides people.
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?
Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.
I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.