Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty

- Simon Barnes

If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly.

- Simon Barnes

The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition…

- Simon Barnes

What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the worl…

- Simon Barnes

The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed

- Simon Barnes

Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world.

- Simon Barnes

Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay wher…

- Simon Barnes

There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the …

- Simon Barnes

Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it

- Simon Barnes