Sports
Hervey Bay has a diverse range of sporting activities available. Some competitions are Hervey Bay based only, but the majority of sports are played against nearby cities Bundaberg, Maryborough and Gympie. Popular sports include rugby league, rugby union, tennis, roller derby, cricket, basketball, netball, softball, baseball, hockey, AFL, touch football, soccer, track and field athletics, and beach volleyball. The Hervey Bay Triathlon started in 1988 and has been raced annually since. Recreational water sports are played along the beaches. Hervey Bay has two AFL clubs competing in the AFL Wide Bay competition.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)