No Sports

No Sports

No Sports ist die legendäre und vielfach zitierte Antwort, die Winston Churchill einem Reporter auf dessen Frage gegeben haben soll, wie er, passionierter Zigarrenraucher und Whiskey ebenso zugetan wie Champagner, sein hohes Alter erreicht habe. Obwohl das Zitat gerne von Sportgegnern verwendet wird, war Churchill in jungen Jahren durchaus sportlich als Fechter, Schütze, Reiter und Polospieler aktiv. Noch als über 70-Jähriger nahm er an Fuchsjagden teil. In seiner Autobiographie von 1930 My Early Life (deutsch: Meine frühen Jahre: Weltabenteuer im Dienst) hatte er über seine Kadettenzeit an der Royal Military Academy Sandhurst geschrieben, Pferde seien dort sein größtes Vergnügen gewesen und wie seine Freunde habe er sein ganzes Geld dafür ausgegeben, welche zu mieten. "Keine Stunde, die man im Sattel verbringt, ist verloren."

Horses were the greatest of my pleasures at Sandhurst. I and the group in which I moved spent all our money on hiring horses from the very excellent local livery stables. We ran up bills on the strength of our future commissions. We organized point-to-points and even a steeplechase in the park of a friendly grandee, and bucketted gaily about the countryside. And here I say to parents, especially to wealthy parents, 'Don't give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses.' No one ever came to grief - except honourable grief - through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die. (p. 45)

Tatsächlich gibt es keinerlei seriösen Beleg dafür, dass das „No Sports“-Zitat von Churchill stammt. Nach Christoph Drösser ist der Spruch "offenbar nur im deutschsprachigen Raum bekannt, zumindest findet man ihn auf keiner einzigen englischen Internet-Seite, aber auf Hunderten deutschen – ohne Beleg natürlich. Im renommierten Oxford Dictionary of Quotations sucht man das Zitat ebenfalls vergebens."

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