Ray Gandolfo talking about Muhammad Ali still boxing at 39 years old:
He now floats like an anchor and stings like a moth.
He now floats like an anchor and stings like a moth.
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Ex England manager, the late Graham Taylor:
Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned..... some accountants and solicitors with them.
Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned..... some accountants and solicitors with them.
Bat Masterson was a man of many parts - gunfighter; buffalo hunter; US army scout and gambler. He was also a US Marshall and Sheriff. As a close friend of Wyatt Earp he helped Earp clean up Dodge City and, in later life, became a respected journalist with a keen interest in boxing as an official and writer. He died of a massive heart attack in 1921 aged 67 after writing his final column, which included the following:
I suppose these ginks who argue that.....because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter, things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I can't see it that way.
I think a most profound observation from a man who led a very rich, violent and varied life.
I suppose these ginks who argue that.....because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter, things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I can't see it that way.
I think a most profound observation from a man who led a very rich, violent and varied life.
Harry Vardon, British golfer:
Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller.
Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller.
Leighton Rees - Welsh darts player:
I had a bash at positive thinking, yoga, transcendental meditation, even hypnotism. They only screwed me up so I'm back to my normal routine - a couple of lagers.
I had a bash at positive thinking, yoga, transcendental meditation, even hypnotism. They only screwed me up so I'm back to my normal routine - a couple of lagers.
Attributed to Muhammad Ali:
I'm so fast I could hit you before God gets the news.
I'm so fast I could hit you before God gets the news.
The motto of the All Blacks rugby team:
Subdue and penetrate.
Subdue and penetrate.
Chris Brasher:
The only true amateurs in sport these days are those who are no good at it. (that applies to a number of Swan's players
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The only true amateurs in sport these days are those who are no good at it. (that applies to a number of Swan's players
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An angler is a man who spends his rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of a river doing nothing because his wife won't let him do it at home.
Jack Charlton:
I won't die at a match. I might die being dragged down the river Tweed by a giant salmon, but at a football match, no.
I won't die at a match. I might die being dragged down the river Tweed by a giant salmon, but at a football match, no.
Some quotes on hunting:
A man who can in cold blood hunt and torture a poor innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distresses of his own species. Frederick The Great king of Prussia.
Detested sport that owes its pleasures to another's pain. William Cowper.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. J.A. Froude.
No 'sportsman' wants to kill a fox or a pheasant as much as I want to kill him when I see him doing it. George Bernard Shaw.
A man who can in cold blood hunt and torture a poor innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distresses of his own species. Frederick The Great king of Prussia.
Detested sport that owes its pleasures to another's pain. William Cowper.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. J.A. Froude.
No 'sportsman' wants to kill a fox or a pheasant as much as I want to kill him when I see him doing it. George Bernard Shaw.
Thomas Jefferson, US President:
Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body, and stamp no character on the mind. "Sounds like the Swans again!)
Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body, and stamp no character on the mind. "Sounds like the Swans again!)
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Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. J.A. Froude.
Have you met my cat?
Have you met my cat?
Actually honey badgers can be very aggressive and frequently fight for sport, not usually to kill though. They often take on lions and much bigger animals just for the hell of it and they do fight and kill snakes for food.
Ali on boxer Sonny Liston:
He's so ugly that when he crys the tears run down the back of his head.
He's so ugly that when he crys the tears run down the back of his head.