If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.
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Related The state is leveraging its marketing dollars by partnering with Ski NH to promote New Hampshire's o... ALICE DESOUZA The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from... LEE H. HAMILTON Every sport has its own cast of characters. RANDY SAVAGE Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of th... ROBERT DALLEK Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose. LYNN DAVIES I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law. PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The one thing that Qwest has is its local franchise, and over the next two years it's going to becom... DONNA JAEGERS NASCAR is absolutely as concerned about keeping its roots intact as it is about growing the sport. W... MIKE HELTON People love to beat up on the poor umpire. It's like its own sport. ART HERNANDEZ I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the spo... BILLIE JEAN KING Cock-fighting, which has attained to the dignity of a literature of its own, is the popular Malay sp... ISABELLA BIRD In our sport, there's only two people, so if you're not winning, then you're losing. RAJIV OUSEPH At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domest... FLANNERY O'CONNOR If you take a look at Mark Martin, he's been in the sport for a long time and at his age, the reason... JIMMIE JOHNSON In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and supers... JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG ACTON I think the responsibility message has been more thorough because they are involved in our sport tha... JEFF BURTON I do not believe this is helpful. Jacques Rogge [the IOC president] has said anti-doping is the most... CRAIG REEDIE It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. OSCAR WILDE I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life. YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally rep... DICK SCHAAP Figure skating is a sport with its own subculture filled with behind-the-scenes intrigue, fashion, g... DICK EBERSOL Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns. BERNARD INGHAM once you become a cheat its hard to stop but when you found that one person that means the most to y... STACEY EVANS Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for. PIERRE DE COUBERTIN A sporting system is the by-product of society and its political system, and it is just boyhood drea... PETER HAIN What we typically call love is only the start of love. Our understanding of love has been hijacked a... ALAIN DE BOTTON Detested sport,
That owes its pleasures to another's pain. WILLIAM COWPER Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny. HANNAH MILLS I'm amazed at how far our kids have come and the coolest thing about this sport is we have kids from... CHARLOTTE FRENCH I'm honored and blessed by God to be in the sport I love, and I want to accomplish all the goals... CANELO ALVAREZ I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport ... DANIEL CORMIER The sport was booming in the 80s and then lost its cutting edge with the younger races when video ga... CHUCK CARROLL Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its ca... AVICENNA We become increasingly aware that the human dream, the human drama, with all its questionable, damag... DONNA GODDARD My favorite was always whichever sport was in season. I think these days it's almost saddening t... SAM BRADFORD This is what I know. It'd be stupid if I didn't coach. I love the sport and I love coaching, and I'm... CHRIS FOX Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdo... LEONARDO DA VINCI They are all ultimately promoting the sport, each with a distinct style. These guys are creating the... RYAN MILLER We still think it's a great event and a great sport. Its recognition with the public keeps getting b... BILL NIELSEN Jenson has been beaten by all of them apart from Takuma Sato and Jacques Villeneuve . EDDIE IRVINE Cricket has become the national sport again for the summer; it had been a dying sport for the past f... BEN RUHRMUND Acceptance Is The Most Happiest Thing Than Expectation BHARATH RAO KADAM We keep things piled up inside, even the harshest response seems appropriate. NCIS Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to ... OUIDA Hunted for sport by the rich, then driven from large tracts of its natural habitat by agricultural a... JOHN BURNSIDE It kind of humanizes the sport. She's been an icon of the sport. To see that people can be at top of... SASHA COHEN Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 B... JAHANGIR KHAN We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted ... JOSEPH DE MAISTRE I am optimistic that this unified effort by our softball delegation will show Mr. Rogge and the IOC ... DON PORTER People bet all the time in every aspect of life, and most of that is legal gambling. If you're tryin... BILL GUERIN The Liberal party has been in power throughout this entire scandalous affair. And Mr. Martin, to my ... JACK LAYTON I thought of the new stone, of my new wife, and of the newly buried white bones beneath us, and I fe... SōSEKI NATSUME Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. EDMUND BURKE Professional tennis has become an extremely physical and unbelievably competitive sport. Injuries ar... SANIA MIRZA Its the most amazing sport ever. It's a lot of fun to sail up a mountain! BETSY CUTHBERTSON The GR site has acquired its market value through the work of its community. G.R. READER It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even mor... OSCAR WILDE It's truly a historical moment for our sport, for clean sport and I'm just thrilled with the result.... BECKIE SCOTT There's a great thing about amateur sport: it is purer. And the athletes are not open to so much... JEREMY IRONS Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently... AGNES SMEDLEY The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the a... TOM UDALL The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it. JIMMY GREAVES Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one. WILLIAM BALDWIN This corrupt regime has reached its sell-by date and its stench has become unbearable. ALAA ABDEL FATTAH She transcends the sport. She transcends the sport, and growth in our sport is not coming from tenni... STACEY ALLASTER I love the way this sport has evolved and impacted every segment of society. Now you have cross trai... LEE HANEY There is no driver in the sport who carries the size of stick that Dale Earnhardt carried. Every spo... MARK MARTIN The story of NASCAR and its recent success really has nothing to do with Fox or NBC. It has everythi... DAVID HILL The story of NASCAR and its recent success really has nothing to do with Fox or NBC, ... It has ever... DAVID HILL Boston has been at the beginning of so many revolutions and this is another one for the sport. GUY MORSE The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow a... DEB CALETTI The prominence given to our nation as a rainbow country has its genesis and credence in our 'Cal... ANTHONY CARMONA Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways. NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless. MIKE KRZYZEWSKI They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses... JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER There is no question that the demand for traditional sport utility vehicles has been affected by ris... STEVE LYONS Maybe its all around to see, if we try. And Maybe it's been inside of me all this time. Love, love, ... CHAD PETREE When age is jocond it makes sport for death. GEORGE HERBERT Throughout the history of the sport, the heavyweight champion has been... a reason to talk about box... TEDDY ATLAS If you walk a city, if you love a city, if you put in your miles and years with open heart and mind,... REBECCA SOLNIT The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is kn... AVICENNA There's a tremendous camaraderie of people who love the sport and the training involved. There's no ... JOY RASMUSSEN She has changed so much about the women's side of the sport. Hannah is always going all out, and she... GRETCHEN BLEILER I would like the UNCW Surf Club to be a place for all students no matter what ability to come togeth... CLAIRE MAGEE The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularit... LIONEL TRILLING If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a ma... E. L. DOCTOROW I love the sport and being competitive. ZARA PHILLIPS The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things. BONNIE BLAIR If thou wilt ease thine heart / Of love and all its smart, / Then sleep, dear, sleep. THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched... CLAUDIO REYNA We had the players and were able to use those to the max - Lawrence Dallaglio, Martin Johnson, Jonny... DAVID DAVIES Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude ... FRANK CROWNINSHIELD With few exceptions, the publishing industry has come to a consensus: if a book has a young protagon... ELIOT SCHREFER The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole... THOMAS MERTON The sport of competitive memorizing is driven by a kind of arms race where every year somebody comes... JOSHUA FOER To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever yo... IAN BOTHAM In the early 1950s, during the near avalanche of discoveries, rediscoveries, and redefinitions of su... GEORGE EMIL PALADE The upcoming hearings are a chance for some accountability and for some answers that have been lacki... PATRICK LEAHY The faculty, staff and students never lose sight of our increasingly multicultural society as the co... CHARLES READ
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And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, ... JACQUES PEPIN But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a gener... JACQUES LACAN Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful. JACQUES AUDIARD When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax. JACQUES PEPIN It's sad that you don't see drivers being real people. JACQUES VILLENEUVE All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have f... JACQUES LIPCHITZ What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature,... JACQUES COUSTEAU And now, the end is near, And so I face the final curtain. My friend, I'll say it clear, JACQUES REVAUX (Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereo... 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BRIAN JACQUES Ah, 'tis a good strong yarn, about the sea, and all the legends that surround it, BRIAN JACQUES I use animals native to Great Britain, ... The animals have human traits, like the mole is a tiny, f... BRIAN JACQUES Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human, ... They know what a 'dirty rat' is. BRIAN JACQUES Any time I go into anything like this, I make sure, before I ever put pen to paper, that I've got th... BRIAN JACQUES Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious ins... JACQUES LACAN Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital d... JACQUES BARZUN The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the do... JACQUES DERRIDA We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their... JACQUES MARITAIN The Christian should participate in social and political efforts in order to have an influence in th... JACQUES ELLUL