Sports
Students interested in sport can choose from more than forty disciplines at the Institute of Sports — from beginners to top-level. The Institute of Sports is a modern-service enterprise within the University of Mannheim supporting athletics and the health of all students and employees in the University of Mannheim and the region. At the moment they are offering a wide variety of programs with 140 courses, 320 hours per week in 55 different kinds of sports.
Mannheim placed 2nd in 2005 European university rowing championship, finishing ahead of Oxford.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;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)
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)