If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world: it gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. The picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

The whole secret of fencing consists but in two things, to give and not to receive.

Though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.

I never yet could make out why men are so fond of hunting; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields—and all for a hare or a fox or a stag that they could get more easily some other way.

I do love cricket—it’s so very English.

Recreations should be as sauces to your meat, to sharpen your appetite unto the duties of your calling, and not to glut yourselves with them.

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

A brilliant boxing match, quicksilver in its motions, transpiring far more rapidly than the mind can absorb, can have the power that Emily Dickinson attributed to great poetry: you know it’s great when it takes the top of your head off.

Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.

Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.

The gods play games with men as balls.