Top 40 Quotes About Spectator Sports
#1. Pornography and cooking shows have created two new spectator sports.
Mason Cooley
#2. Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.
Alex Berenson
#3. The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
Jack Kevorkian
#4. I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!
Miguel Syjuco
#5. Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports.
Mason Cooley
#6. Politics, life, and business are not spectator sports. You have to get involved to get ahead. Most importantly, when you reach that level of success, keep the door open and the ladder down for others to follow.
Ron Brown
#7. Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
Jackie Robinson
#9. You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
Garry Kasparov
#10. There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.
Mantak Chia
#11. My favourite spectator sport is watching people who should know better searching for something (and often claiming to find it) where it never could be. Women claiming to find feminism in Islam is a good one.
Julie Burchill
#13. People tell me, "I'm glad you said that." But this is not a spectator sport. This is an activity that requires daily moral awakening as well as a commitment that leads to real change.
Bill Bradley
#14. In life, be a participant, not a spectator.
Lou Holtz
#15. In one respect, it's easier to open a restaurant in New York because you get more media attention than anywhere else. Almost everyone will try a new place once, irrespective of the reviews, because it's a spectator sport.
Danny Meyer
#16. In no other sport must the spectator move.
John Updike
#17. I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
Frederik Pohl
#18. Why did God make tigers so good at catching prey, and at the same time make prey so good at getting away from tigers? You'd think that if God wanted one thing or the other to happen he'd have engineered it rather better. Maybe he enjoyed the spectator sport?
Richard Dawkins
#19. We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport.
Parker Palmer
#21. Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result.
Michael Basman
#22. Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.
Al Kooper
#23. War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.
Chris Hedges
#24. A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
Bernard Malamud
#25. We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.
David Gergen
#26. Environmentali sm isn't a spectator sport. You actually have to stand up and demand that we be vigilant in protecting our air and water.
Lisa P. Jackson
#27. I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making it rather than watching it.
Peter Greenaway
#29. Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions)
Nigel Short
#30. Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.
Cory Booker
#32. I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo.
Ann Coulter
#33. Perhaps future space probes will be plastered in commercial logos, just as Formula One cars are now. Perhaps Robot Wars in space will be a lucrative spectator sport. If humans venture back to the moon, and even beyond, they may carry commercial insignia rather than national flags.
Martin Rees
#34. Life is too precious to be a spectator sport. We are no longer merely fans, rooting for the winning team. We are the team. We are the grown-ups. Whatever you believe is true, now is the time to give your respectful, inquisitive, and compassionate self to it.
Vicki Robin
#35. There is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter.
Rene Maheu
#36. I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.
Ed Zern
#38. For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed into entertainment ... Nothing is immune from the demand that boredom be relieved (but without personal involvement, for mass society is a spectator society).
Merold Westphal
#39. You keep meaning to cultivate an expertise in spectator sport. More and more you realize that sports trivia is crucial to male camaraderie. You keenly feel your ignorance. You are locked out of the largest fraternity in the country.
Jay McInerney
#40. The stakes ... are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Barbara Jordan
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