Don Sparks famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Victory with honor and integrity is the real goal of sport. Sometimes it happens that others are better than you. I could never beat Carl Lewis in a hundred-yard dash, but my victory might be in running faster today than I did yesterday.
-- Don Sparks

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The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.
Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.
You always catch the wrong players.
Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.
Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.
I really hate it when I canâ€™t score runs from a ball.
The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

Don Sparks famous quotes

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