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Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in the mode of transport and lifestyle of people. The ones in the wild are also no better off, as the forests are shrinking. -- Mark Shand
There is no life without sport and no sport without competition. -- Randeep Hooda
Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose. -- Lynn Davies
Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board. -- Phil McGraw
Squash has been my life and I owe a lot to the sport. -- Jahangir Khan
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life. -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life. -- Lynn Davies
The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself. -- Dawn Fraser
I've never boxed before in my life. I've had one day's training at a boxing gym, and it's an incredibly difficult sport. -- Rupert Penry-Jones
I've dedicated my life to public service, and I feel it's still a noble profession. However, I also understand it's a contact sport. -- Pete Visclosky
I love boxing, and boxing has always been my favorite sport. I was always into it, and I boxed recreationally all of my life. -- Holt McCallany
Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself. -- Richard Attias
Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life. -- Jacques Villeneuve
For me, basketball kind of mirrors life. It sounds deep, but the sport has transformed my personality and my daily coping mechanisms. It has meant a lot. -- Robbie Jones
My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life. -- Dan Jenkins
There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way. -- Lynn Davies
Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer. -- Bill Walton
Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature. -- Robert Redford
You really don't do anything else in your life; it's a very little bubble that you grow up in. And you have to live in that bubble because of the intensity of the sport. -- Estella Warren
In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players. -- Janet Echelman
The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation. -- Avery Brundage
Life is not a spectator sport. -- Jackie Robinson
Life is a sport...drink it up. -- Michael Jordan
Life is a team sport; it's not about you. -- Sue Enquist
Baseball has been my favorite sport all my life. -- Tom Golisano
We take life too lightly and sport too seriously. -- John Arlott
Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances. -- Roger Bannister
I have given my life to the game and to the sport. -- Hope Solo
I think you want to try every sport possible just to experience life. -- Jose Canseco
Life is not a spectator sport; it requires full pads and full participation. -- Toni Sorenson
A true champion of love and sport wears it proudly in all aspects of life. -- Jennifer Ott
Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I want a life of good sport, good people and the competition that goes with it. -- Randy Lerner
Having loved sport my whole life, competing in a Paralympics would be a dream come true. -- Heather Mills
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love sport as long as its kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life. -- David Icke
I love sport as long as it's kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life. -- David Icke
I can only play the sport for so long, I have mathematics for the rest of my life. -- John Urschel
Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice. -- Fiona Wood
You know, I wouldn't even call snowboarding a sport, you know for me it's just a way of life -- Travis Rice
Sports can unite worlds, tear down walls and transcend race, the past, and all probability. Unlike life, sport matters. -- Shehan Karunatilaka
Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much. -- Dana Hussein
Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business. -- Nastia Liukin
Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life! -- Horace
If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can change lives. -- Bryan Clay
I have three joys in my life: work, sport and food. All these come in one and do not make a hobby. -- Mikhail Prokhorov
My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life -- Peggy Fleming
My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life. -- Peggy Fleming
There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life. -- Mantak Chia
Our sport is dangerous. We risk the life out there, so we need to stay calm and focused and leave all the rest out. -- Valentino Rossi
I have no regrets about the amount of work I put into the sport. This is what I needed to do with my life. -- Bernie Ecclestone
Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice. -- Ziggy Marley
Regardless of who you are, what sport you chose, or how much success you achieved, playing the game is all about getting you ready for life. -- Brian Kilmeade
Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than rowing an allegory of life. -- Stefan Kieszling
I've been involved in the sport since I was seven-years-old and I have learned so many things in life from it, such as making friends and discipline. -- Jenny Meadows
Gymnastics has given me everything in my life. I will continue to stay involved and try to give back to the sport that has given me so much. -- Nastia Liukin
Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically. -- John Howard
First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance. -- William C. Brown
I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport. -- Joel Silver
Sport teaches you about commitment and to dedicate yourself. Whether you make it to the top or not, sport gives you great skills that you can use in life. -- Jenny Meadows
Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life. -- Jackie Robinson

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