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People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest — people understand that. – Don Murray

All sports are games of inches. – Dick Ritger

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. – Rita Mae Brown

When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury. – Fran Lebowitz

I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers. – Katharine Whitehorn

Many continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game. – George Mikes, How to Be an Alien, 1946

Cricket — a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. – Lord Mancroft

Cricket is baseball on valium. – Robin Williams

Life is simply a cricket match, with temptation as the bowler. – Author Unknown

Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever. – Vince McKewin, from the movie The Replacements

Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. – Author Unknown

Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow. – John Mariucci

The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell. – Red Smith

Sport is a preserver of health. – Hippocrates

A tough day at the office is even tougher when your office contains spectator seating. – Nik Posa

The key is not the “will to win” — everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important. – Bobby Knight

All a manager has to do is keep eleven players happy — the eleven in the reserves. The first team are happy because they are in the first team. – Rodney Marsh, 1979

The Rock knew his wrestling career was over when he looked across the ring and saw his opponent… THE PAPER. – Jerry Thomas

Squash is boxing with racquets. – Jonah Barrington

Crystallizing my feelings about the game, I find that squash is less frustrating than golf, less fickle than tennis. It is easier than badminton, cheaper than polo. It is better exercise than bowls, quicker than cricket, less boring than jogging, drier than swimming, safer than hang gliding. – John Hopkins, Squash: A Joyful Game, 1980