Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
A. C. Benson
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
A. E. Housman
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.