“Rugby is a game for men with no fear of brain injury.”
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.”
A Brief History of Timewasting, Room 101, The News Quiz
“That’s not a government, it’s a rugby scrum with a currency.”
Source: Caliban's War (2012), Chapter 53 (p. 582)
“The Encyclopedia Of Rugby League; Alan Whiticker & Glen Hudson”
References
“My work is a game, a very serious game.”
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
disputed quotes
Attributed without citation in "Tigran Petrosian's Best Games" http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1014968 at chessgames.com
Alternating Current (1967)
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.”
Title of book (1947)