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Why is the N.F.L. so popular? The N.F.L. grew in the comfort zone after World War II. People had money and time. A popular American sport got bigger. — George Vecsey

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports. — John Hodgman

If you're losing a tug of war with a tiger, give it the rope. You can always buy a new one. — Max Gunther

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. — Jonathan Haidt

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant. — Bob Feller

Besides a Scientist Marion is also a Pacifist and an Atheist. This means she is basically against most things, such as War, Sports, and God. — David James Duncan

Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless. — Ferdinand Foch

Takin' it to ISIS, man!" Blue Jacket thumped his chest twice, and I read the saying on his shirt: Turning ISIS into WASWAS. — Jennifer Lane

Serious sport is war minus the shooting. — George Orwell

There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another. — Sylvester Stallone

World War II was a must win. — Marv Levy

The war on drugs has been a social and political failure. We need to encourage sport and stop encouraging drugs. — Steven Machat

It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows. — Joe Kinnear

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity. — Simon Kuper

Business is a combination of war and sport. — Andre Maurois

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death. — Horace

I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did. — Ted Turner

Appearances can be misleading. You just never know what's inside someone until he's tested. — Daniel Rodriguez

Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates
the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption. — Ed Ayres

War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use. — H.L. Mencken

The unknown is the governing principle of war. — Ferdinand Foch

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. — Red Auerbach