Poetry Sport Quotes

#1. Football is the poetry of a motion.

Pubudu Lasal Dissanayake

#2. Why would you want to be anything else if you're Mick Jagger?

Keith Richards

#3. When all the world is old, lad, And all the trees are brown; And all the sport is stale, lad, And all the wheels run down, Creep home and take your place there, The spent and maimed among: God grant you find one face there You loved when all was young.

Susanna Kearsley

#4. Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn from the Bible and expounded by the church, is enough to drive the most imaginative and sensitive natures to despair and death.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#5. A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.

George Ade

#6. You can travel from one end of the industrialized world to the other and almost the only people you will find engaging in backbreaking toil are people who are doing it for sport. To find people whose day's toil has not been lightened by mechanical invention, you must go to the non-capitalist world.

Milton Friedman

#7. Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

Robert Frost

#8. Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [ ... ] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. Once I trained for the Olympics but panic is not a sport

Daniel Bailey