- Ouotes by Nick Hornby
“The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score”. - Quotes by James Hogg
“Oh! for the channel-stane!The fell good name the channel-stane!There’s no a game that I saw, Can match auld Scotland’s channel-stane!” - Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
“Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honour. The formal bullfight is a tragedy, not a sport, and the bull is certain to be killed”. - Quotes by Michael Frederick Green
“Coarse Rugby is played by those who are too old, too young, too light, too heavy, too weak,too slow, too lazy, too cowardly, or toounfit for ordinary rugger”.
- Quotes by John Woodcock Graves
“D’ye ken John Peel with his coat so gay? D’ye ken John Peel at the break of day?D’ye ken John Peel when he’s far, far away with his hand hounds and his horn in the morning?” - Quotes by Kenneth Grahame
“There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats”. - Quotes by Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
“The billiard sharp whom any one catches, His doom’s extremely hard – He’s made to dwell – In a dungeon cell. On a spot that’s always barred. And there he plays extravagant matches.In fitless finger-stalls . On a cloth untrue . With a twisted cue And elliptical billiard balls”.
Tags: Ernest Hemingway, James Hogg, John Woodcock Graves, Kenneth Grahame, Michael Frederick Green, Nick Hornby, Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, Sports And Games
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