Interest in a sport peaks during its championship season. That's when even casual observers turn on their television sets, and lifelong fans are born.

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• Thomas Hauser:

  The ultimate goal of any athlete in any sport is to become a true world champion.

• Thomas Hauser:

  When Roy Jones was young, he glowed. There was an aura about him, and words came out of his mouth l

• Thomas Hauser:

  Every time a fighter steps into the ring, he's borrowing against his future well-being.

• Roger Scruton:

  But the European Union does not have a concept of national identity. It was set up to abolish that

• Roger Scruton:

  No, I don't think I've ever really favoured English independence. My view is that if the Scots want

• Roger Scruton:

  The Scottish desire for independence is, to some extent, a fabrication. They want to identify thems

• Roger Scruton:

  Each Chinese person is a kind of replica of the next one and that is a very frightening thing.

• Roger Scruton:

  Leftwing people find it very hard to get on with rightwing people, because they believe that they a

• Roger Scruton:

  It is scarcely a mark of intellectual profundity to have noticed that our society is big.

• Roger Scruton:

  My life divides into three parts. In the first I was wretched; in the second ill at ease; in the th