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.

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

The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.

These useless men ought to be cut up and served at a banquet. I really believe that athletes have less intelligence than swine.

A win always seems shallow: it is the loss that is so profound and suggests nasty infinities.

Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.

Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.

Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.

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.

We cannot say what the woman might be physically, if the girl were not allowed all the freedom of the boy in romping, climbing, swimming, playing whoop and ball.

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.

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

The true mission of American sports is to prepare young men for war.