After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.
Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.
We are the modern day gladiators.
I'm like those gladiators from the past.
Gladiators seek to best all, it is how they survive
Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators.
Versace pythons. Louis Aviators. Balenciagas & they gotta be the gladiators.
I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons.
Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.
I grew up with an infestation of politics. I'm just nuts about it. It's our form of gladiators in the arena, only they are not in quite as good a shape.
I'm a big fan of historical fiction stuff. Historical battles - 'Gladiators,' 'The Patriot.'
If reality TV is bad, so is Colosseum, so are the gladiators, so are sports. I think cricket is bad. But that's a point of view.
In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.
The real gladiators of the world are so humble in their origins and unremarkable in appearance that when we stand next to them in a grocery-store line, we never guess how brightly their souls can burn in the dark.
Prayer is a method practised from ancient days, so it's very important for us to maintain a spiritual connection, something that people, gladiators would do years ago, so we're just maintaining that routine.