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:
“Come, my Celia, let us prove
While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)