Sports
- 100 metres — the distance a very fast human being can run in about 10 seconds
- 100.584 metres — length of a Canadian football field between the goal lines (110 yards)
- 91.5 metres – 137 metres — length of a soccer field
- 105 metres — length of a typical football field
- 109.73 metres — total length of an American football field (120 yards, including the end zones)
- 110 – 150 metres the width of an Australian football field
- 135 – 185 metres the length of an Australian football field
- 137.16 metres — total length of a Canadian football field, including the end zones (150 yards)
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“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)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)