Quotes About Violent Sports

#1. There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.

Sylvester Stallone

#2. I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Hunter S. Thompson

#3. Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

Billie Jean King

#4. How do you want to be remembered?
~As someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

J.K. Rowling

#5. It is all connected Dominick," she said. "Life is not a series of isolated ponds & puddles; life is this river you see below, before you. It flows from the past through the present on it's way to the future.

Wally Lamb

#6. Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#7. Politics isn't a reality show or a gong show. It's not show business for ugly people. It's the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.

Michael Ignatieff

#8. The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

Anatole France

#9. Love is a violent recreational sport. Proceed at your own risk. Helmets, armor, and steel-toe boots are required by law.

H.C.Paye

#10. I mean, why do people fight over sports? Because of the framework, the schematic of sports, those particular people seize upon these opportunities to be violent. And the number one problem using the same framework would be religion.

Ian MacKaye

#11. Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.

Ndamukong Suh

#12. The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class.

Paul Fussell

#13. Sports is like literature. People watch it and if it's beautiful and it's non-violent, whatever messages that you see, people can read into it and say, "Wow! You know what? Whatever they're doing over there, it's extraordinary, and maybe that culture is superior to ours in certain ways."

Gabe Polsky

#14. The baby sits in front of MTV watching violent fantasies, while Dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport only to find his heroes all coked up.

Lou Reed

#15. Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change.

Susan Estrich

#16. Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball.

Gloria Whelan

#17. Chess is a sport. A violent sport.

Marcel Duchamp

#18. I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.

Troy Polamalu

#19. The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.

Garry Kasparov

#20. Few today believe that engaging in wrestling, boxing, or even much more violent combat sports such as Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) will help prepare either them as individuals or their nations for eventual armed conflict.

Martin Van Creveld

#21. All of my girlfriends have been actors, and I've realized that maybe it's not for me - and find something else outside of the industry.

Jesse Spencer

#22. It's clear to me that one can't be Jewish without Israel. Religious or non-religious, Zionist or non-Zionist, Ashkenazi or Sephardic - all these will not exist without Israel.

Elie Wiesel

#23. As a writer I'm essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point, whether to keep going.

George Saunders

#24. Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.

Geoffrey Canada

#25. We play a violent sport.

Shaun Alexander

#26. It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.

Troy Vincent

#27. But as a matter of strict fact, did Agnes have any "maternal" in her? When she set her mouth that way, it was hard to see it. Oh shucks, all women had maternal instincts; science had proved that. Well, hadn't they?

Robert A. Heinlein