Olympic Torch Bearers

Sports is human life in microcosm. - Howard Cosell

Sports do not build character; they reveal it. - Unknown

Golf is not so much a sport as an insult to lawns. - Unknown

When I'm feeling athletic, I go to a sports bar. - Paul Clisura

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat. - Geoff Stults

Wales is the land of my fathers. And my fathers can have it. - Dylan Thomas

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained. - Robert Graves

The Republic of China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time. - David Coleman

The trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it. - Croft M. Pentz

These days there are not many sports owners who have ever worn the jockstrap. - George Steinbrenner

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio. - Gerald R. Ford

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. - Unknown

In the Moscow Olympics, Lasse Viren came in fifth and ran a champion's race. - David Coleman

Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind. - Laird Hamilton

If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work. - William Shakespeare

He won the bronze medal in the 1976 Olympics, so he's used to being out in front. - David Coleman

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey. - Jeremy London

There are still parts of Wales where the only concession to gaiety is a striped shroud. - Gwyn Thomas

It's the Olympics. If you can't get up to swim early in the morning, don't go. - Michael Phelps

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. - Vince Lombardi

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's backyard. - Jesse Owens

Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further. - Jean-Claude Van Damme

Oh, are you from Wales? Do you know a fella named Jonah?
He used to live in whales for a while. - Groucho Marx

Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. - Rita Rudner

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it. - Emma Watson

There are only 3 true sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting and auto racing. All the rest are games. - Ernest Hemingway

Golf is like any other sports competition. There is not a whole lot of point to it unless someone suffers. - Kevin Wohl

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read. - George Burns

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey. - Andy Roddick

I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called 'hunting for your spectacles.' - Lord Grey of Falloden

One of the greatest things about the sport of surfing is that you need only three things: your body, a surfboard, and a wave. - Naima Green

People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular. - Andrea Bocelli

The joy of surfing is so many things combined, from the physical exertion of it, to the challenge of it, to the mental side of the sport. - Kelly Slater