WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:10:58 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Broun, Heywood Hale – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Broun, Heywood Hale -- In Ames Daily Tribune (16 Jan 1974) https://wist.info/broun-heywood-hale/35426/ https://wist.info/broun-heywood-hale/35426/#respond Wed, 19 Oct 2016 05:16:42 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=35426 Anybody who teaches a skill, which coaches do, is admirable. But sport doesn’t build character. Character is built pretty much by the time you’re six or seven. Sports reveals character. Sports heightens your perceptions. Let that be enough.


Heywood Hale Broun (1918-2001) American author, sportswriter, actor
In Ames Daily Tribune (16 Jan 1974)

Broun used a number of variations of this idea. It was more famously paraphrased in James Michener, Sports in America (1976), as "Sports do not build character. They reveal it." More discussion on this quote here. ]]> https://wist.info/broun-heywood-hale/35426/feed/ 0 35426