Based on a 1957 Ken Purdy quote, first mentioned in a posthumously published interview with Alfonso de Portago: note: :“I have a quotation in a story, a piece of fiction that won't be published until this summer,” I told Portago, “something that I thought at the time I wrote it you might have said: that of all sports, only bull fighting and mountain-climbing and motor-racing really tried a man, that all the rest are mere recreations. Would you have said that?”
I tend to agree with Hemingway who said something to the effect that only mountain climbing, bull fighting and automobile racing were sports and that everything else was a game.
Source: Ken W. Purdy (August 1957) "Portaro; The real story of the sizzling Spaniard" https://archive.org/details/sim_car-and-driver_1957-08_3/page/n70 Sports Cars Illustrated (Ziff-Davis: New York) vol. 3 no. 2 p. 63 note: :“There are three sports that try a man,” she remembered Helmut Ovden saying, “bullfighting, motor racing, mountain climbing. All the rest are recreations.”
Source: Ken W. Purdy (27 July 1957) "Blood Sport" https://archive.org/details/sim_saturday-evening-post_1957-07-27_230_4/page/92 The Saturday Evening Post (Curtis: Philadelphia) vol. 230 no. 4 p. 92
Source: An early attribution to Hemingway is the essay "Why" by Gene Hill, published in Guns & Ammo and reprinted in 1972 in A Hunter's Fireside Book: Tales of Dogs, Ducks, Birds and Guns (Winchester Press: New York) ISBN 0876910762 p. 96
“Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.”
On hunting; at PETA's "Stand-Up for Animals" show http://www.peta.org/blog/bill-maher-top-comics-stand-up-for-animals/ (Los Angeles' Comedy Store, 15 June 2014)
“It's a mere moment in a man's life between the All-Star Game and an old timer's game.”
During the 1980 Major League Baseball All-Star Game held at Dodger Stadium
Quoted in Kevin Shea, "One on One with Jacques Plante," http://www.legendsofhockey.net/html/spot_oneononep197802.htm Legends of Hockey.net (2005-05-24)
About Ester Ledecká in 2018; * Winter Olympics: Ester Ledecka - the snowboarder who won gold on borrowed skis
BBC
2018-02-17
Katie
Falkingham
http://www.bbc.com/sport/winter-olympics/43095089
Budokwai Bulletin (1947)
Context: I have been asked by people of various sections as to the wisdom and possibility of Judo being introduced with other games and sports at the Olympic Games. My view on the matter, at present, is rather passive. If it be the desire of other member countries, I have no objection. But I do not feel inclined to take any initiative. For one thing, Judo in reality is not a mere sport or game. I regard it as a principle of life, art and science. In fact, it is a means for personal cultural attainment. Only one of the forms of Judo training, so-called randori or free practice can be classed as a form of sport. Certainly, to some extent, the same may be said of boxing and fencing, but today they are practiced and conducted as sports. Then the Olympic Games are so strongly flavored with nationalism that it is possible to be influenced by it and to develop "Contest Judo", a retrograde form as ju-jitsu was before the Kodokan was founded.
“My goal is to play for Australia in all three formats of the game”
Nair's goal, quoted on Sportskeeda, "Indian-origin cricket prodigies Arjun Nair and Jason Sangha earn their way into Australia's U19 squad" http://www.sportskeeda.com/cricket/indian-origin-cricket-prodigies-arjun-nair-jason-sangha-earn-way-australia-u19-squad, January 7, 2016.
Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
