Sport And Politics Quotes

#1. England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.

Benjamin Disraeli

#2. Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.

John Thune

#3. They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.

Steve Largent

#4. Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.

Bill Kurtis

#5. In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

Dick Gregory

#6. Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

Michael Nutter

#7. Sport allows people to come together, but politics divides people.

Francois Hollande

#8. True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today's politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game - it's not a contact sport but a blood sport.

Jim Cooper

#9. Palestinian and Israeli leaders finally recover the Road Map to Peace, only to discover that, while they were looking for it, the Lug Nuts of Mutual Interest came off the Front Left Wheel of Accommodation, causing the Sport Utility Vehicle of Progress to crash into the Ditch of Despair.

Dave Barry

#10. I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

Anna Chlumsky

#11. Someone once asked him if there was any sport he didn't like, and he replied "Politics. They should stop showing that on TV.

Fredrik Backman

#12. I believe politics is a team sport. That, for awful and unfortunate reasons beyond any of our control, the American system only allows, effectively, for two teams.

Rick Perlstein

#13. Lucia opened the door. "They say not to discuss politics and religion on the first date."
"Well, then." I gave her a huge smile. "We're screwed.

Jennifer Lane

#14. Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#15. This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.

Oliver Kahn

#16. 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

#17. Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two.

Mark Shields

#18. There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.

Dan Pfeiffer

#19. It's (Politics) rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But it's the only sport for grownups.

Robert A. Heinlein

#20. I hate it when politics play too large part in the sport.

Jacques Villeneuve

#21. Being a soldier [in the wars of modern power politics] was like being on a team in a sport that drew no crowds, except for the players' own parents and friends.

Dan Wakefield

#22. I love this sport and I don't want to get involved in politics.

Sete Gibernau

#23. It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.

Jack Buck

#24. Politics has become a game of meaningless, mindless battles, conducted by unscrupulous methods and people, designed to transform even the most serious policy debates into sport.

Al Gore

#25. I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.

Kamala Harris

#26. 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

#27. Whether you work in news, sport, politics, whatever, it's exactly the same; a story is a story, is a story. I consider myself first and foremost a journalist.

Jill Douglas