Sport Criticism Quotes

Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity.

When you do something as long as I have, you obviously love the sport - although not everything about the sport.

In the sport itself it's fine, but online I have had constant sexist comments saying women are not as good as men.

Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond of this sport; 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; but we are only horses, and don't know.

The people who critique me are the people who don't know about the sport. They don't really know about the rules of MMA. They aren't a real fan or follower of the sport, or they're just people who like to talk.

It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification.

We've taken a position that drivers are going to be able to speak their mind and criticize the sport way more than any other sport would allow. However, there have to be some limits.

We've got a great team sport, but we harp on about individuals. It's a bit contradictory.

There have been more things wrong with England than just Wayne Rooney in the last few years.

In what other sport do you get a 15-second break every hour?

Being queer you're supposed to adore figure skating. It's a sport, not an art. I love the costumes and hate the music and of course I worship Johnny Weir because so does he. Also he's real. It's a full gay thing and it always has been.

When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level.

I don't train like a mixed martial artist. I don't respect the sport like everyone else does.

I know there is trouble in boxing. People say it is no longer good. But I cannot take responsibility. I am not a missionary for boxing.

I've learned that football is a stupid sport for intelligent people because the simplest things are truly also the most difficult to get right.

I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.

Professionalism in tennis ... only resulted in making billionaires out of rude children, producing an onslaught of moody defectors, and a lot of guys with hair that looks as if bats slept in it... Meanwhile, my head swims with the thought that I have watched tennis progress from Don Budge and Alice Marble to Farrah Fawcett becoming John McEnroe's mother-in-law.

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

I think gymnastics can be a really brutal sport. I don't think it's supposed to be a brutal sport.

Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.