Tim Noakes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
If I can slow it down in my mind, things will be fine.
Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.
We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.
Boxing is an all year round sport. You never know when they're going to call you, so you got to stay ready.
You are not a body. You have a body. You are a soul.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.
People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

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