Logo
Quote by Michael Mandelbaum
The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not che

The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, theyre no different from movies theyre scripted. – Michael Mandelbaum

Other quotes by Michael Mandelbaum

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports. – Michael Mandelbaum

Category:
architecture
Author
Michael Mandelbaum
Read Quote

Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future. – Michael Mandelbaum

Category:
Future
Author
Michael Mandelbaum
Read Quote

In my experience, its not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows. – Michael Mandelbaum

Category:
funny
Author
Michael Mandelbaum
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
movies
category

When I started to watch some of the films Id done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see. – Heath Ledger

Category:
movies

I dont want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry – directors and producers – are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames. – Shigeru Miyamoto

Category:
movies

If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Category:
movies

Immortals is all action. I love action movies. Thats really where I want to spearhead my career. – Kellan Lutz

Category:
movies

Random Quotes

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. – Tobias Smollett

Category:
Ignorance

Anyone who can be replaced by a machine deserves to be. – Dennis Gunton

Category:
Imagination

I dont really go down one path. I wouldnt call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldnt put myself into any organized faith. – Dean Cain

Category:
Faith