Sports Quotes

Sports refers to any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics. It commonly describes something done for fun, regardless of its design or intended purpose, a person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship, and somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport, which gives the term a broader and more practical sense than a single short definition would suggest. Depending on context, it can also point to that which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement, mockery, making fun; derision, and a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery, so the category can cover literal uses, related ideas, and more figurative extensions of the same core meaning. Taken together, these meanings present Sports as a flexible theme rather than a narrowly technical label, covering the central idea people usually mean when they use the word while still leaving room for closely related senses that appear in real language. Additional shades of meaning include gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing, a plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects, a sportsman; a gambler, one who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes, and an amorous dalliance, which reinforce how the category can stretch across adjacent but still recognizable uses of the same term.

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Muhammad Ali

(1942-2016)