![]() The Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games is on Friday, July 27, 2012 Olympic Games: July 27 - August 12, 2012 Paralympic Games: August 29 - September 9, 2012 Sports is human life in microcosm. - Howard Cosell Sports do not build character; they reveal it. - John Wooden 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 Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns. - W S Gilbert In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. - Julia Child I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights. - Joel Osteen I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards. - Yani Tseng 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 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 Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. - Paul Rodriguez If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. - William Shakespeare Husband-hunting: A sport in which the animal that gets caught has to buy the license - Daffynitions joe-ks.com 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 It's the Olympics. If you can't get up to swim early in the morning, don't go. - Michael Phelps 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 I keep fit. Every morning, I do a hundred laps of an Olympic-sized swimming pool - in a small motor launch. - Peter Cook 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.' - Edward Grey The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. - P G Wodehouse 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 Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. - Tiger Woods 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 starting line of the New York Marathon is like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport. - Bill Rodgers Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics. - Marvin Olasky see also Olympics & Scenery Sections Looter Hurdles Mandeville Mascot Olympic Hurdle Joe |
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