Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words it is war minus the shooting.
—George Orwell, 1945
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The true mission of American sports is to prepare young men for war.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, c. 1952