Quotes About Violence In Sports

#1. Sports have nothing to do with fair play. They are bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence

George Orwell

#2. I try to picture my books being acted out.

Denise Fleming

#3. 'Don't Look Back' is my first YA contemporary mystery/thriller. It's been described as 'Black Swan' meets 'Pretty Little Liars'.

Jennifer Armentrout

#4. Wrestling is ballet with violence.

Jesse Ventura

#5. I wonder how the Cubs are doing.

Andy Weir

#6. We need new ideas and new creativities to help address contemporary issues.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
(in "The Sporting Spirit", Tribune, GB, London, December 1945)

George Orwell

#8. Boxing is an American sport - a 'so-called sport' to many - in which images of incalculable beauty and violence, desperation and ingenuity, are routinely entwined; the sport that evokes the most extreme reactions - loathing, revulsion, righteous indigation; a fierce and often inexplicable loyalty.

Joyce Carol Oates

#9. Sports (and the often barely withheld violence around them) have become one of the few modern ways to connect with strangers. They give an amazing number of geeks things to talk about. In the old days we settled for, Hello, how are you?

Perry Brass

#10. Animals have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance. There is something so very dreadful in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.

John Henry Newman

#11. We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been sublimated in sports, photorealistic video games, film and literature.

Kenneth Oppel

#12. A girl's apprenticeship was girlhood itself. A

Jill Lepore

#13. The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.

Spencer Abraham

#15. The National Football League needs "a guardian, not a CEO" to deal with the fact that "the sport is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel.

Frank Deford

#16. I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing ... creating ... it's in my DNA.

Janelle Monae

#17. Information is power, and power is money.

Kennedy Chase

#18. Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all the worst aspects of our society - violence, drunkenness, drugs, racism, exploitation, greed and stupidity; and that's just for starters.

Simon Heffer

#19. My conception of New York City came from rap music. I envisioned it as a place where people shot each other on the street and got away with it; no one walked on the streets, rather people drove in their sports cars looking for nightclubs and for violence.

Ishmael Beah

#20. The old man nodded. "There's a saying, 'Death hath a thousand doors to let out life; I shall find one.' We all have a door that waits. I know that. I accept it. But the children. That's what I struggle with.

Ruta Sepetys

#21. Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its advocates.

Andrea Dworkin

#22. Football is violence and cold weather and college rye.

Roger Kahn

#23. We are going to have to do something about all this violence, or people are going to keep buying tickets.

Conn Smythe

#24. Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That's because of a wider political system, but also because of a lack of an institutional framework.

George Papandreou