George Orwell on sports

Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, ‘he that is not with me is against me.’

Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face⁠—forever.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

I was gonna rip his heart out. I’m the best ever. I’m the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! He’s no Alexander! I’m Alexander! I’m the best ever. I’m Sonny Liston. I’m Jack Dempsey. There’s never been anyone like me. I’m from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I’m just ferocious. I want his heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!

Mike Tysonborn 1966Interview with Jim Gray (2000).

You teach me baseball and I’ll teach you relativity…no we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

Albert Einstein1879–1955

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