Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports. . . all others are games. (Ernest Hemingway)

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived. (Hellen Keller)

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. (George Will)

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. (Jane Austen)

Sports do not build character. They reveal it. (Heywood)

Sports do not build character. They reveal it. (Haywood Hale Broun)

Children's playthings are not sports and should be deemed as their most serious actions. (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne)

Reading transports me. I can go anywhere and never leave my chair. It lets me shake hands with new ideas. (Rolfe Neill)

One player practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it. (Knute Kenneth Rockne)

The sports page records people's accomplishments The front page nothing but their failures. (Earl Warren)

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. (Earl Warren)

Pour water on a sportswriter -- instant horseshit. (Ted Williams)

Not every age is fit for childish sports. (Titus Maccius Plautus)