“Rugby is a game for men with no fear of brain injury.”
Linda Smith (1958–2006) comedian
A Brief History of Timewasting, Room 101, The News Quiz
Sunday Times interview (1980s)
“Rugby is a game for men with no fear of brain injury.”
Linda Smith (1958–2006) comedian
A Brief History of Timewasting, Room 101, The News Quiz
“That’s not a government, it’s a rugby scrum with a currency.”
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: Caliban's War (2012), Chapter 53 (p. 582)
“The Encyclopedia Of Rugby League; Alan Whiticker & Glen Hudson”
Jack Gibson (1929–2008) Australian rugby league player and coach
References
“My work is a game, a very serious game.”
M. C. Escher (1898–1972) Dutch graphic artist
No known direct citation to a work or interview with Escher; it appears in The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Cover Letter (1997) by Susan Ireland, p. 258 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9OMcWS5K-JMC&pg=PA258, and The Universal Book of Mathematics : From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes (2004) by David Darling, p. 107 <br class="br">disputed quotes
Tigran Petrosian (1929–1984) Soviet Georgian Armenian chess player and chess writer
Attributed without citation in "Tigran Petrosian's Best Games" http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1014968 at chessgames.com
Octavio Paz (1914–1998) Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature
Alternating Current (1967)
Charles Manson (1934–2017) American criminal and musician
Interview https://youtube.com/watch?v=CNPW0WHIAvo?t=872 by Penny Daniels (1989)
“The theory and practice of gamesmanship; or, The art of winning games without actually cheating.”
Stephen Potter (1900–1969) British writer
Title of book (1947)