Sport in Malaysia includes badminton, bowling, football, squash and field hockey. Golf is another sport which is growing in popularity after many courses were built. Malaysia has hosted several major sports events including the Commonwealth Games in 1998.
Sport is a major activity in local universities, which often run an annual sports event. In September 2010, Malaysian sports officials announced an agreement with some of Scotland's top sports organisations to develop partnerships to use Scottish expertise to create a successful sports industry in Malaysia. The Malaysian government designated 2011 as the 'Year of Sports Industry', and the Sports Minister outlined its scope and importance, which includes exploring the viability of hosting major international sporting events.
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“Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.”
—Ouida [Marie Louise De La Ramée] (1839–1908)
“How long, then, Catiline, while you abuse our patience? How long is this madness of yours to make sport of us?”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)