Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

What makes a good manager? Good players!

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed.

The stronger women get, the more men love football.

We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Don Quixote would understand golf. It is the impossible dream.

There are fools, bloody fools, and men who remount in a steeplechase.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.