sports

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure you are.

It's not enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it!

It doesn't matter if you win or lose, or even how you play the game: it only matters how good you look! *wink*

The industry of participatory sports is based on renewing flows of cash changing hands every year, every month, and sometimes even every day.

The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they may not be aware of it, is that it forces them into the Now -- that intensely alive state that is free of time, free of problems, free of thinking, free of the burden of the personality.

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.

If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come.

Sing louder around To the bell's cheerful sound, While our sports shall be seen, On the echoing green.

He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

The Ten Commandments of Sport 1. Thou shalt not quit. 2. Thou shalt not alibi. 3. Thou shalt not gloat over winning. 4. Thou shalt not be a rotten loser. 5. Thou shalt not take unfair advantage. 6. Thou shalt not ask odds thou art unwilling to give. 7. Thou shalt always be ready to give thine opponent the shade. 8. Thou shalt not under estimate an opponent, nor over estimate thyself. 9. Remember the game is the thing, and he who thinketh otherwise is no true sportsman. 10. Honor the game thou playest, for he who playeth the game straight and hard, wins even when he loses.