sportsmen quotes

It is a standing insult tosportsmen to have to play undera rule which assumes that players intend to trip, hack and push their opponents, and to behave like cads of the most unscrupulous kidney. The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

- C(harles) B(urgess) Fry
  Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).