Vera Caslavska quotes

Vera Caslavska quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls.”
-- Vera Caslavska

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“Love is a sensation caused by temptation when a guy sticks his location into a girl's destination to increase the population for the next generation. Do you understand my explanation or do you need a demonstration?”
“Then the fear all humans felt when met with Deathâ€™s gaze came over his face. Thatâ€™s right buddy, Iâ€™m Death, now move away from my girl.”
“The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.”
“I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.”
“If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.”
“Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated”
“I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.”
“Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.”
“I had ridiculous amounts of energy. Mom's like, you're driving me crazy - do you want to try gymnastics? From the moment I started it, I loved it and it kind of was like storybook from there.”
“You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!”

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