Sports
AFI defines "sports" as a genre of films with protagonists who play athletics or other games of competition.
| # | Film | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raging Bull | 1980 |
| 2 | Rocky | 1976 |
| 3 | The Pride of the Yankees | 1942 |
| 4 | Hoosiers | 1986 |
| 5 | Bull Durham | 1988 |
| 6 | The Hustler | 1961 |
| 7 | Caddyshack | 1980 |
| 8 | Breaking Away | 1979 |
| 9 | National Velvet | 1944 |
| 10 | Jerry Maguire | 1996 |
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (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)