Sport In Australia Quotes & Sayings

I know netball is the number one female sport in Australia, but hockey also offers a lot. — Casey Eastham

Has anyone ever noticed that when ethnic Australians excel in sport they are heralded "Aussies"; but when something goes wrong they are thrown the "go back to where you came from" line? WAKE UP RACISTS. — Miya Yamanouchi

A day came when all the rebel in me knew itself beaten, and then my whole nature bowed down in humble resignation in the dust. And then I saw... I saw that he was as incomparable in beauty as he was in terror. I was saved, I was rescued. — Rabindranath Tagore

At the same time I think it is absolutely necessary that there be no confusion, no misunderstanding that if the Iraqis.. do not comply, then there will be consequences and those consequences will involve the use of military force to disarm them through changing the regime. — Colin Powell

There is wealth but no wellbeing. What are you going to do with this wealth? — Jaggi Vasudev

From this distance everything is so bloody perfect. — Melina Marchetta

The death of contentment is comparison. — Steven Furtick

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual. — Aldous Huxley

In sport, there is always room for improvement. Whenever I see my innings against the West Indies or Australia, I think, 'Maybe, I could have done this better or should have changed that.' See, cricket is a skill game, and one can always improve upon the impact one has on an innings. — Yuvraj Singh

To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport. — Ian Botham

Jonny has a theory that South Africa are doomed to choke in every major tournament for the next fifty years as payment for apartheid. He also believes that England will spend centuries working off their colonial sins by performing miserably at sport. I then ask him why Australia, who wiped out generations of Aborigines, win everything in every sport, and he shuts up. — Shehan Karunatilaka

Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder? — Libba Bray

Mercy reflects the presence of the Lord in your heart and your life. — Elizabeth George

It's a tough universe kid. Dirty. Vicious. What the Empire doesn't screw up directly the rest of us screw up in fear of, or anger at, the Empire. — Simon Goodson

So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school. — Thomas Keneally