It is like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock, which not only is itself discredited but casts a shade of doubt over all previous assertions. - A. P. Herbert

The race is run - the winner wears the laurels,
But you and I not empty go away;
For we have seen the least unkind of quarrels;
The young men glowing in the friendly way.
Let us be glad - but not because of winning,
Let us go home, to family today.
God make our Games a glorious beginning,
And hand in hand, together guide us on our way.

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose. He does not play cricket because it is a good game, but because it creates good citizens. He does not love motor-races for their own sake, but for the advantages they bring to the engineering firms of his country. And it is common knowledge that the devoted persons who conduct and regularly attend horse-races do not do so because they like it, but for the benefit of the breed of the English horse.

There's alcohol in plant and tree.
It must be Nature's plan
That there should be in fair degree
Some alcohol in Man.