In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's a great thing about amateur sport: it is purer. And the athletes are not open to so much pressure with amateur sport.
Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.
I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.
Femininity and sport can go together.
Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.
Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love.
If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.
In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.