‘Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.’ – Gary Lineker

‘I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.’ – Michael Jordan

‘Winners never quit and quitters never win.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.’ – Rodney Dangerfield

‘Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.’ – Babe Ruth

‘Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.’ – Satchel Paige

‘Golf is a good walk spoiled.’ – Mark Twain

‘Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.’ – Bob Feller

‘You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.’ – Michael Phelps

‘You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.’ – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

‘Champions keep playing until they get it right.’ – Billie Jean King

‘I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.’ – Mike Tyson

‘A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.’ – Wayne Gretzky

‘Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.’ – Dan Gable

‘Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.’ – Bobby Unser

‘It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.’ – Muhammad Ali

‘Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.’ – Barry Switzer

‘My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.’ – Hank Aaron

‘Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.’ – William Arthur Ward

‘I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.’ – Walt Whitman

‘I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.’ – Mia Hamm

‘Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.’ – Ted Williams

‘One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.’ – Knute Rockne

‘You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.’ – Yogi Berra

‘People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.’ – Rogers Hornsby

‘You win some, lose some, and wreck some.’ – Dale Earnhardt

‘You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.’ – Jim Bouton

‘God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.’ – Eric Liddell

‘Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.’ – Joe Adcock

‘Fans don’t boo nobodies.’ – Reggie Jackson

‘I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.’ – Gerald R. Ford

‘I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.’ – Shaquille O’Neal

‘Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don’t rush. Be quick, but don’t hurry.’ – Earl Monroe

‘Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.’ – Casey Stengel

‘The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.’ – Billy Graham

‘Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.’ – William James

‘I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.’ – Earl Warren

‘Golf is a game in which you yell ‘fore,’ shoot six, and write down five.’ – Paul Harvey

‘Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.’ – George Orwell

‘A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.’ – Jesse Owens

‘The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.’ – Ernie Banks

‘Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.’ – Warren Spahn

‘To find a man’s true character, play golf with him.’ – P. G. Wodehouse

‘The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.’ – H. G. Wells

‘Sports do not build character. They reveal it.’ – Heywood Broun

‘Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.’ – George Brett

‘If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.’ – Bob Hope

‘You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.’ – Joe DiMaggio

‘It’s a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.’ – Pete Rose

‘Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.’ – Tiger Woods

‘Bobby Knight told me this: ‘There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.’ In other words a good offense wins.’ – Dan Quayle

‘Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.’ – William Wordsworth

‘The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.’ – Ernest Hemingway

‘I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.’ – Mike Singletary

‘Nobody roots for Goliath.’ – Wilt Chamberlain

‘The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.’ – Ben Hogan

‘You don’t hurt ’em if you don’t hit ’em.’ – Chesty Puller

‘I’ll let the racket do the talking.’ – John McEnroe

‘Life is about timing.’ – Carl Lewis

‘The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.’ – John Madden

‘I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.’ – Will Rogers

‘All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.’ – Gordie Howe

‘These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it.’ – Charles Barkley

‘Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.’ – Michael Jordan

‘Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘The integrity of the game is everything.’ – Peter Ueberroth

‘Approach the game with no preset agendas and you’ll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.’ – Phil Jackson

‘There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.’ – Bill Veeck

‘All sports for all people.’ – Pierre de Coubertin

‘Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.’ – Joyce Carol Oates

‘If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.’ – Erma Bombeck

‘The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.’ – Martin Mull

‘Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.’ – Blaise Pascal

‘Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘Don’t play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.’ – Harry Vardon

‘Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.’ – Tom Landry

‘Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.’ – Ty Cobb

‘If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.’ – Sam Snead

‘Wrestling is ballet with violence.’ – Jesse Ventura

‘If you drink don’t drive. Don’t even putt.’ – Dean Martin

‘Sometimes in football you have to score goals.’ – Thierry Henry

‘The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.’ – Babe Ruth

‘You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.’ – Lee Trevino

‘You know they’re not going to lose 162 consecutive games.’ – Harry Caray

‘Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.’ – Billie Jean King

‘You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.’ – Bobby Knight

‘Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.’ – Dave Barry

‘The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.’ – Bob Lemon

‘I’m not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.’ – Whitey Herzog

‘Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.’ – Joseph Chilton Pearce

‘Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.’ – Robert Wilson Lynd

‘Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.’ – Jack Benny

‘If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.’ – Jack Lemmon

‘The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I’ve always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It’s been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It’s a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.’ – Michael Jordan

‘The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie.’ – George Deukmejian

‘I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.’ – Gerald R. Ford

‘Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘You know it’s going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.’ – Charles Barkley

‘The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.’ – Steve Garvey

‘Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.’ – Grantland Rice

‘Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.’ – Frank Gifford

‘Most ball games are lost, not won.’ – Casey Stengel

‘Sports are a microcosm of society.’ – Billie Jean King

‘What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.’ – Arnold Palmer

‘Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.’ – Juan Antonio Samaranch

‘Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.’ – Yogi Berra

‘It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.’ – Mark Twain

‘Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you? – Ben Hogan’ – Ben Hogan

‘The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.’ – Hank Aaron

‘He’s going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That’s always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can’t handle it. But it looks like he can.’ – Jack Nicklaus

‘I won’t predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.’ – Michael Phelps

‘If you got the game, you got the game. That’s why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.’ – Shaquille O’Neal

‘If a man can beat you, walk him.’ – Satchel Paige

‘Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.’ – Robert Griffin III

‘If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.’ – Phil Jackson

‘Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.’ – John Leonard

‘I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.’ – Robert Frost

‘To me, it doesn’t matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.’ – Ian Botham

‘Baseball is a man maker.’ – Al Spalding

‘Pitching is the art of instilling fear.’ – Sandy Koufax

‘I don’t want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.’ – Rogers Hornsby

‘The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.’ – Douglas William Jerrold

‘Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.’ – Babe Ruth

‘Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?’ – Al Boliska

‘Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?’ – Jim Bouton

‘As athletes, we’re used to reacting quickly. Here, it’s ‘come, stop, come, stop.’ There’s a lot of downtime. That’s the toughest part of the day.’ – Michael Jordan

‘Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.’ – Ben Hogan

‘One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.’ – Joe Garagiola

‘He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That’s where he’s getting his power from. He’s young and has great elasticity.’ – Nick Faldo

‘If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score? – Vince Lombardi’ – Vince Lombardi

‘The team has come along slow but fast.’ – Casey Stengel

‘Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball.’ – James Patrick Murray

‘Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.’ – Norman Ralph Augustine

‘Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off.’ – Bill Veeck

‘He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I’ve ever seen.’ – Jack Nicklaus

‘I went through baseball as ‘a player to be named later.” – Joe Garagiola

‘I play in the low 80s. If it’s any hotter than that, I won’t play.’ – Joe E. Lewis

‘My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.’ – Bill Toomey

‘Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.’ – Jim Bishop

‘New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.’ – Jimmy Connors

‘The crowd makes the ballgame.’ – Ty Cobb

‘What’s a good tournament for him? Winning it. He’s good enough.’ – Greg Norman

‘He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.’ – Gary McCord

‘He’s got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can’t wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.’ – Gary McCord

‘Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.’ – Greg LeMond

‘You don’t suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.’ – Greg LeMond

‘Gray skies are just clouds passing over.’ – Frank Gifford

‘Boxing has become America’s tragic theater.’ – Joyce Carol Oates

‘My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.’ – Edwin Moses

‘I was always a mean and lean athlete – not tall – not large.’ – Edwin Moses

‘I overcame size with mechanics.’ – Edwin Moses

‘Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.’ – Doug Collins

‘Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.’ – John Updike

‘Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.’ – Roger Kahn

‘I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.’ – Roger Kahn

‘Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.’ – Roger Kahn

‘Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.’ – Red Auerbach

‘Nobody’s a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It’s hard to stay on top.’ – Paul Coffey

‘In football, time and space are the same thing.’ – Graham Taylor

‘When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn’t play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.’ – Hugo Black

‘Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.’ – Christy Mathewson

‘You cannot win if you cannot run.’ – Hank Stram

‘If I weren’t earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.’ – Charles Barkley

‘Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.’ – Joe Garagiola

‘There isn’t a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he’s such a great kid.’ – Jack Nicklaus

‘I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.’ – Al McGuire

‘I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.’ – Kurt Russell

‘Baseball life is a tough life on the family.’ – Nolan Ryan

‘I’m a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.’ – Sasha Cohen

‘Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.’ – Peter Ueberroth

‘Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.’ – Peter Ueberroth

‘He’s got everything. He’ not a great player yet because he hasn’t won any major championships, but it’s a matter of time. He’s an outstanding talent. I didn’t realize how tall he is.’ – Nick Price

‘Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he’s obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He’s got a kind of presence.’ – Nick Price

‘I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.’ – Demetri Martin

‘I couldn’t find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.’ – Ferdinand Porsche

‘I don’t know if God is a sports fan or not, but I do know this: He loves a good comeback.’ – Lane Kiffin

‘Sports is the common denominator in the world that brings everyone together. If there’s any one place in the world where there is equality, it is probably sports. That was something that didn’t always exist. We’ve come a long way in sports. Why can’t society use sports as a way to bring people together and create change?’ – Stephen M. Ross

‘Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.’ – Kobe Bryant

‘In sports, you simply aren’t considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.’ – Althea Gibson

‘That’s one thing you learn in sports. You don’t give up; you fight to the finish.’ – Louis Zamperini

‘When I did play team sports, I was into soccer and hockey. I loved hockey. And then rock climbing became the thing that got me out of Iowa, and I traveled the world for rock climbing. I really loved the, I guess you would say, dirtbag lifestyle of not eating much and traveling the world and slipping into different cultures and just observing.’ – Jason Momoa

‘It doesn’t matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.’ – Harvey Mackay

‘I live by ‘Go big or go home.’ That’s with everything. It’s like either commit and go for it or don’t do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That’s what I live by. That’s how I like it.’ – Paul Walker

‘I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.’ – Richard M. Nixon

‘I’m one of these people that likes adrenaline and new things, like extreme sports. It makes me feel alive.’ – Gisele Bundchen

‘At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training.’ – Zlatan Ibrahimovic

‘Jamaica is more than just the ‘brand’ the world recognizes so well; it’s a place of pride for the people who live here, its educational institutions, its sports achievements, its science and technology growth.’ – Portia Simpson-Miller

‘Your ups and downs in sports, I think they are as normal as daily life: One day you wake up and feel great, the next day you wake up and feel maybe less great.’ – Michael Schumacher

‘Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you’re going to be a success, whether you’re in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.’ – Donald Johanson

‘Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.’ – George Foreman

‘I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.’ – LeBron James

‘In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions.’ – Don Yaeger

‘Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.’ – Billie Jean King

‘Sports and politics don’t mix.’ – Eric Heiden

‘Sports teaches us to be together and united.’ – Neeraj Chopra

‘It takes hard work, dedication, discipline and a positive attitude to get to the top – in business or in sports.’ – George Blanda

‘Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.’ – Bill Bradley

‘I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA’s not going to happen.’ – Ramon Rodriguez

‘Sports is the toy department of human life.’ – Howard Cosell

‘Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.’ – Venus Williams

‘Sportsmanship is definitely an important thing in all sports. In soccer, we all respect each other on such a high level, between Sweden and Brazil and Japan or whatever team it is.’ – Alex Morgan

‘These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.’ – Jim Sensenbrenner

‘Don’t sell yourself short because without that you can’t go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can’t do anything else with that.’ – Bo Jackson

‘In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, ‘Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,’ the first thing I said was, ‘Lee, you can’t make a race horse out of a mule. I don’t want to do it.’ He said, ‘I didn’t ask you to make it; you work for me.” – Carroll Shelby

‘Sports not only build better athletes but also better people.’ – Julie Foudy

‘I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.’ – Michelle Obama

‘My symbol was always a polo player because I liked sports, and polo has a stylishness to it.’ – Ralph Lauren

‘You prevent kids from joining gangs by offering after-school programs, sports, mentoring, and positive engagement with adults. You intervene with gang members by offering alternatives and employment to help redirect their lives. You deal with areas of high gang crime activity with real community policing. We know what works.’ – Greg Boyle

‘I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.’ – Tim Ferriss

‘The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation – not where the action is taking place, but where it’s going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they’re going to be.’ – Lawrence Schiller

‘Honestly, I feel like we are a walking protest. The fact that we’re women professional athletes says that in and of itself. We’ve been feeling the inequality; we’ve been struggling with pay equality or whatever it is, or sexism in sports.’ – Megan Rapinoe

‘I’m not a sports person, but every now and then, I incorporate sports in my rhymes because I’m always grabbing from certain things and getting inspired by something whether I’m totally involved in it or not.’ – Gza

‘I put so much pressure on myself to be perfect. Between homework and sports and drama and being social, I slept about four hours a night through high school and college.’ – Allison Williams

‘The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don’t want a girl who’s too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I’m saying.’ – Josh Hutcherson

‘Unless you’re a vegan freak of nature like Tony Gonzalez, I don’t think you can play sports much past your early 30s.’ – Jeff Ament

‘Some of us have been told what we want our whole lives. We’ve been told we should want to go out for sports or not. We should want a college education or a graduate degree or a particular career. We should want to date this person and not the other.’ – Bob Goff

‘I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.’ – Dave Chappelle

‘The sports page records people’s accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man’s failures.’ – Barbara Walters

‘Where there is peace, there is sports; where there is sports, there is peace. Peace is what allows us, especially young people, to dream, go after one’s goals and prepare you for the next challenge in life.’ – Kim Yuna

‘Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was competing with other schools. I did everything: running, volleyball, basketball, soccer, Olympic-style gymnastics, and more! My history with sports gave me good concentration, focus, strength, and motivation to stay healthy.’ – Izabel Goulart

‘Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.’ – Ice Cube

‘Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.’ – Chris Rock

‘I grew up playing a lot of sports and doing musical theater.’ – Renee Rapp

‘The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn’t.’ – Greg Louganis

‘You can’t explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience – it’s like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.’ – Rick Astley

‘Athletics are not my wheelhouse because sports were mean to this uncoordinated kid growing up, a 6-foot-2 14-year-old who never could do a layup.’ – Brad Garrett

‘Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.’ – Kapil Dev

‘I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.’ – Jason Bateman

‘I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.’ – Matthew McConaughey

‘There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.” – Arthur Ashe

‘When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years – now it’s called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports.’ – Dietrich Mateschitz

‘The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever land they come, speak the same language. The lessons of competition are lessons for life.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘The thing about sports movies is, they can’t help but feel epic – putting music to images, etc.’ – Lindsey Shaw

‘The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man’s moral nature.’ – Thorstein Veblen

‘You can easily get depressed. Usually, if you play sports, you think that one match or one game is very important, and when you lose it, you think your whole world is over.’ – Naomi Osaka

‘I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don’t have a good life.’ – Willie Mays

‘I would encourage people to participate in sports. You don’t have to dream of being an Olympic or a professional athlete.’ – Michelle Kwan

‘Need a Black face to criticize other Black colleagues, Black Lives Matter, heck even protests against Trump’s Muslim ban and parrot the inherently racist ‘stick to sports’ mantra? Sage Steele is ready and willing.’ – Jason Johnson

‘I want my kids to be able to live comfortable and go to school and to be into sports.’ – Lil Durk

‘I am still very much rooted in what I really fell in love with, with sports entertainment and pro wrestling.’ – Karrion Kross

‘I am both humbled and honored to receive the Honda Sports Award for women’s basketball.’ – Brittney Griner

‘I wasn’t good in school. I didn’t do sports. I sat in the bedroom and listened to records. Because the Beatles did whatever they wanted to, I took that as a kid and said, ‘That’s what rock is.” – Chris Cornell

‘I think that in any group activity – whether it be business, sports, or family – there has to be leadership or it won’t be successful.’ – John Wooden

‘Sports isn’t just a part of life. It’s not life itself.’ – Stedman Graham

‘I’m not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.’ – Michelle Wie

‘I’d never played on a team until high school. It gave me a sense of belonging, a focus, and helped build my confidence. I liked the feeling of accomplishment and the respect. Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.’ – Howie Long

‘I’m not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I’m like the son my dad never had.’ – Kaley Cuoco

‘If you are humble, your concentration will be very high. That’s the way to go in sports.’ – Eliud Kipchoge

‘Tiger Woods is the only sports star who’s worth every penny he makes.’ – Mark Wahlberg

‘People love video games because they do things they obviously can’t do in real life. That’s especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.’ – Ralph H. Baer

‘I think badminton has a real legacy with more youngsters taking up the sport. Badminton has done really well in that regard compared to other sports.’ – Rajiv Ouseph

‘Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn’t talk sports. We talked business.’ – Jared Kushner

‘Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.’ – Randy Castillo

‘Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody; you don’t have to be their best friend. You can experience the fun of competition and driving toward a common goal without pushing to bond in some major way with each individual on a project.’ – Kathleen Kennedy

‘I believe God created sports for a good reason. It’s recreation. It’s something that we enjoy. It teaches us a lot as well… I believe God is a sports fan.’ – Luke Scott

‘There is dirty politics in sports federations.’ – Milkha Singh

‘I’m not much involved in sports, and I don’t play, either.’ – Kriti Sanon

‘I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it’s baseball or sports or knitting or the movies.’ – Sutton Foster

‘I think Twitter has destroyed a large degree of American sports fandom because it vastly over-indexes the ‘America is awful, I want there to be a massive amount of political statements being made during my sporting events.” – Clay Travis

‘I was always a tomboy. I always wanted to be around the boys, always wanted to play sports – basketball, football, kickball, whatever it was. I was real aggressive. I wanted to be around the bros! – Young M.A’ – Young M.A

‘I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn’t the greatest sports person.’ – Tim Burton

‘It’s a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.’ – Eddie Vedder

‘I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.’ – Peggy Fleming

‘If you look at all aspects of all sports, everything comes down to basics and fundamentals.’ – Robbie Lawler

‘Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.’ – Neil Simon

‘Far and away, the question I’m asked most often is, ‘What’s your favorite sporting event to call?’ I can’t say I’ve ever answered the question well, simply because the three biggest events I broadcast for CBS Sports – the Super Bowl, the NCAA Men’s Final Four and the Masters – each are incomparable.’ – Jim Nantz

‘I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you’ve already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don’t know.’ – Roger Federer

‘Football is only once a week. NASCAR is once a week. Those sports are insanely popular. Horse racing is oversaturated. Unless tracks cut back to three days a week of full fields, a lot of people will really hurt down the road. Horse racing, to survive, has to go to that. Let’s face it: Churchill Downs only does well on Derby Week.’ – Rick Pitino

‘Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.’ – Andy Murray

‘Pro wrestling is not fake; it’s sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot of what we do out there is real, but we’re not going to insult anyone’s intelligence – there is a predetermined winner. It’s just the fans don’t know who it is, and that’s what makes it so intriguing.’ – Kurt Angle

‘Being named Michael Jordan – I think growing up playing sports and having a name like Michael Jordan – and I was extremely competitive – I used to get teased a lot. But it made me want to strive for greatness and be able to compete at whatever I decided to do.’ – Michael B. Jordan

‘I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.’ – Lou Holtz

‘Performing at the highest level in sports requires adaptability.’ – Abhinav Bindra

‘Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.’ – John Travolta

‘Honestly, I don’t listen to nobody else’s music but my own. It’s kind of like sports to me. You don’t see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game – he just works on his own game. And that’s what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.’ – Lil Wayne

‘I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.’ – Tipper Gore

‘Loyalty and communication are always rewarded in sports.’ – Cheech Marin

‘Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played – skiing, baseball, fishing – there is no greater example than golf, because you’re playing against yourself and nature.’ – Robert Redford

‘We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.’ – Jackie Joyner-Kersee

‘I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand you’re going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.’ – Kyrsten Sinema

‘As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what’s known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.’ – Jeffrey Kluger

‘You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren’t trying to win, what’s the point in being involved? Once you do get involved, you realize the team draws so much from the community, and it would be nothing without the support of it. You’ve got to give back. It needs to be a two-way street.’ – Jerry Reinsdorf

‘I was always a sports nut but I’ve lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.’ – John Cleese

‘Sports is like a war without the killing.’ – Ted Turner

‘I really liked sports and athletic stuff, but I was a total nerd.’ – Joe Keery

‘Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play.’ – Chris Gabrieli

‘I’m 19 now, and I go to The New School in New York, where I study Criminal Psychology. My first week of second semester was during Fashion Week when my first editorials in ‘CR Fashion Book’ and ‘Sports Illustrated’ came out. It was crazy!’ – Gigi Hadid

‘I’m telling you, there have been some great finishers in the world of pro wrestling or sports entertainment. Whatever you want to call it. Man, I enjoyed the Iron Claw back in the day. I believed it was real.’ – Stone Cold Steve Austin

‘We wanted Nike to be the world’s best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don’t end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.’ – Phil Knight

‘I myself am frustrated in just where sports are at. It’s a hard thing when you’re out there working every day, and you know that someone else is cheating and they may not necessarily get caught.’ – Allyson Felix

‘I wasn’t put on the cover of ‘Sports Illustrated’ as a plus-size model; I was put on the cover of ‘Sports Illustrated’ as a model, as a rookie, as Ashley Graham.’ – Ashley Graham

‘I meet athletes from different backgrounds and see they share the same mentality and process as other athletes in other sports.’ – Shannon Sharpe

‘Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the life of a footballer, and I guess that is true across most sports now.’ – Trent Alexander-Arnold

‘I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.’ – Wilma Rudolph

‘Trump survives by Corum’s Law. This is a famous, well-tested theory and is named after Bill Corum, who once wrote sports for the Hearst papers when they were in New York.’ – Jimmy Breslin

‘I’ve always been a fan of football, always watched the NFL and it’s great to always sit back wherever I can this year. You sit back and enjoy the games, pop a little sports drink – not any pop or soda – lay back, watch the games. It’s always cool to see how the games go down and just enjoy them.’ – Rob Gronkowski

‘I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn’t have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.’ – Bradley Cooper

‘In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the fringes of society. I think all Australians agree that this is intolerable. So we must demand as much of our schools as we do of our sports teams – and ensure that they keep the Australian dream alive for every child.’ – Rupert Murdoch

‘There’s three things men always talk about – women, sports, and cars.’ – Mario Lopez

‘I think we’re actually the only sport that has a mix of men and women competing together. The majority of other sports are separated by gender.’ – Charlotte Dujardin

‘But I was very much into sports when I was a child.’ – Eva Herzigova

‘I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It’s a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.’ – Chuck D

‘To show weakness, we’re told in sports, is to deserve shame. But showing weakness, addressing your mental health, is strength.’ – Mardy Fish

‘I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don’t talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.’ – Gabriel Iglesias

‘I got into sports, thankfully, because I didn’t listen to my mother.’ – Dat Nguyen

‘My son is trying to be a sports writer, and my daughter is a college student. She wants to be a comedy writer, and she’s at film school. I discouraged both of them early on from getting involved in Starbucks. I didn’t think it would be fair; plus, they didn’t have any interest anyway.’ – Howard Schultz

‘Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone – the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it’s sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.’ – Zachary Levi

‘I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.’ – Steven Chu

‘I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better.’ – Xi Jinping

‘I’m apparently attracted to things that are on the edge of what America really wants to watch: ‘Six Feet Under,’ ‘Sports Night,’ ‘Dirty Sexy Money,’ and ‘Parenthood’ were always struggling in the ratings. It was kind of heartbreaking not knowing if we get to come back every season.’ – Peter Krause

‘I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.’ – Ed O’Neill

‘Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there’s a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.’ – Ed Greenwood

‘The BBC sports department when I was there was seriously to the right of Ghengis Khan, and if people think I am strange, they should have met some of the production staff I worked with. Margaret Thatcher and the Queen were the pin up girls for many of them.’ – David Icke

‘The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.’ – Rei Kawakubo

‘I thought I was going to be a footballer or a boxer or something like that – I was into sports.’ – Barry Keoghan

‘I’m not a big sports fan, but I love it when they ‘slam dunk.’ That’s sexy.’ – Emma Bunton

‘Sports build good habits, confidence, and discipline. They make players into community leaders and teach them how to strive for a goal, handle mistakes, and cherish growth opportunities.’ – Julie Foudy

‘Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘I receive huge support from Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated. Likewise I feel I have a great affinity with the American sports fans. I play most of my golf in the U.S. nowadays and I am incredibly proud to have won the U.S. Open and U.S. PGA Championship in the last two years.’ – Rory McIlroy

‘I think the biggest difference between football and a lot of other sports is that being in a transition period doesn’t mean that you can’t compete and be competitive.’ – Jason Kelce

‘Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘I’m riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, ‘megaramp’ skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I’m fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I’m also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.’ – Lucy Walker

‘Kids in sports – it makes such an impact in life with the lessons that you learn.’ – Patrick Mahomes

‘My work ethic is from sports.’ – Magic Johnson

‘My hobbies are linked to the way I want to play soccer. I want to do different action things, like kite surfing, snowboarding, mountain biking, freeriding with skis. I like these sports in my free time and it could be a big link with how I want to play soccer.’ – Julian Nagelsmann

‘There are not many Chicagos, where people go out and support their sports teams, whether they are struggling or not.’ – Troy Aikman

‘I love sports. So if I was like a sports anchor or something like that. I would love to do that.’ – Jana Kramer

‘I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It’s F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is just a ball and a surface and objects to knock down.’ – Chris Hardwick

‘I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.’ – Shigeru Miyamoto

‘Sports will equip kids with the necessary tools to face academic challenges, and provide all-round development.’ – Brian Lara

‘I’ve been a Colt for almost all of my adult life, but I guess in life, and in sports, we all know nothing lasts forever. Times change, circumstances change, and that’s the reality of playing in the NFL.’ – Peyton Manning

‘I got a lot of the greatest values in life from playing sports, from playing football – teamwork, sportsmanship, my work ethic, resiliency, dedication – I got it all by being on a team.’ – Jon Gruden

‘Eventually you won’t think of ‘the Internet business.’ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.’ – Bill Gates

‘Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.’ – Mike Schmidt

‘As a former competitive athlete and a mother to a daughter who is a D1 collegiate athlete, I staunchly oppose biological males in girls/women’s sports, locker rooms, and bathrooms.’ – Marjorie Taylor Greene

‘The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.’ – J. Philippe Rushton

‘I thought the sports law sector would be boring, but it was unexpectedly interesting.’ – Park Ji-sung

‘I think women athletes who have been successful need to help other sports, those sports that are just emerging. That’s what I’ve been thinking about and looking forward to.’ – Venus Williams

‘Economics is about creating win-win situations. But in sports, someone loses.’ – Stan Kroenke

‘It takes a tremendous amount of skill to be a football player. And some of these guys have enough skills to do other sports. Soccer could be one. Basketball could be another. Things where you need incredible hand-eye coordination are always options. I think a football player would be able to adapt to a lot of sports.’ – Troy Polamalu

‘When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.’ – Jurgen Klopp

‘I drink a lot of Body Armor – it’s a sports drink. It offers great hydration, and it’s the best before/after drink for workouts. Orange mango is my favorite. Strawberry banana is a close second.’ – Andrew Luck

‘I could go right now and work for a non-profit organization, but I have a passion for sports, and I love to write and speak.’ – Molly Qerim

‘Young people, particularly in their teens and 20s, are not consuming sports the way my generation did. They are doing lots of things; they are multitasking. They are getting downloads; they are getting alerts on their computers or on their cellphones, and they are consuming sports in a more real-time but less full-time basis.’ – Gary Bettman

‘I love sports – I am a die-hard fan of soccer, and I am always at Maracana Stadium in Rio watching Flamengo play. I am also a big fan of basketball; I stay up at night to watch Lebron James play whenever I can.’ – Jose Aldo

‘Sports is the ultimate escape, the ultimate in reality programming. It’s true drama. You really don’t know what’s going to happen.’ – Rich Eisen

‘Ever since I was a kid, my dad, he’d watch a lot of sports – really all sports. I just remember I’d watch for about five minutes and then I’d rather go outside and play, and play that sport.’ – T. J. Oshie

‘If you’re a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don’t have a choice.’ – Jimmy Fallon

‘I think communication is massive in football and in all sports in general.’ – Olivier Giroud

‘The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.’ – James Surowiecki

‘My belief is that sports in school is not an extracurricular activity.’ – Brian Kilmeade

‘Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.’ – Bret Easton Ellis

‘I love parasailing, taking strolls, indulging in water sports, hanging out in touristy places – especially night markets.’ – Sushmita Sen

‘Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it’s inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are… You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.’ – Norm MacDonald

‘The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.’ – Sebastian Vettel

‘I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.’ – Conor McGregor

‘I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.’ – Anupam Kher

‘Some boys accepted me, some didn’t. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: ‘What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?” – Marta

‘I used to play sports, basketball, football.’ – Lil Mosey

‘Unless you enjoy life passionately, you cannot be a good artiste. Practise what you like, be it sports or dancing.’ – Sarita Choudhury

‘I can’t mix different sports brands together. I would never go to the gym wearing a Nike sweatshirt and Adidas shoes.’ – Kartik Aaryan

‘When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships – they watch games because their husbands watch. They’re interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it’s a way to spend time with family.’ – Indra Nooyi

‘I danced for 12 years, and I played a lot team sports: basketball, volleyball.’ – Gal Gadot

‘When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It’s like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.’ – Bill Lee

‘In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.’ – Billie Jean King

‘You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.’ – Emma Stone

‘A lot of sports cars are just not designed for the larger gentleman.’ – Chris Harris

‘Sports is human life in microcosm.’ – Howard Cosell

‘Nike is the prime shoe sponsor in sports in general but definitely in skateboarding. I couldn’t think of a better company I’d rather ride for. I’ve always thought they were such an amazing team. They’ve always had the best gears on their team; their product is insanely good.’ – Nyjah Huston

‘Don’t force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It’s the child’s desire to play that matters, not the parent’s desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.’ – Tiger Woods

‘I grew up with four brothers. I used to play sports with them. And I liked wearing their clothes. I’d run around in T-shirts, jeans, and baseball caps.’ – Jaimie Alexander

‘Maybe because I am from a sports background, I don’t give up easily. I am a fighter.’ – Deepika Padukone

‘I’ve been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I’d like to think that of all of them, Big Ben – who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame – would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.’ – Ian Millar

‘I get very envious of my general news colleagues who are always being handed sexy new stuff like global warming, China, and Donald Trump, while my sports colleagues and I must be eternally satisfied with the same old home-court advantage, soccer, and momentum.’ – Frank Deford

‘The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.’ – Barry Larkin

‘I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don’t want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.’ – Hedy Lamarr

‘My dad was disappointed in me because I was obese, and he was a sports guy. As a result, I spent a lot of time in that basement. I could go down there and escape and be whatever I wanted to be. I had a huge fantasy life. It always involved vengeance.’ – Kurt Sutter

‘As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women’s sports have arrived.’ – Sheryl Swoopes

‘I’m a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.’ – Danny Boyle

‘I’ve not seen my two girls play high school sports.’ – Urban Meyer

‘As a child, I liked to play different type of sport, and I grew up to be an ardent sports fan. I have been watching all sports tournament religiously, especially badminton.’ – Taapsee Pannu

‘I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual… and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.’ – Wayne Gretzky

‘I just love sports.’ – E-40

‘The Klutch Sports Group and the Lakers don’t have an issue. Rich Paul and Rob Pelinka don’t have an issue. LeBron James and Rob Pelinka don’t have an issue. And Jeanie Buss and LeBron James and Rich Paul don’t have an issue. It’s very simple. Very simple.’ – Rich Paul

‘I believe that investment in sports is investment in youth. And that, in turn, is investment in the future.’ – Naveen Patnaik

‘I’m not much of a sports fan.’ – Brian Lara

‘We had almost like our own little sports complex at the house. The driveway was like the pitching mound. We used to play one-on-one street hockey right there. My dad wanted to make sure we were ready to have some fun, so he was always out grabbing sports equipment.’ – Travis Kelce

‘I enjoy singular sports, anything to do with one-on-one. It could be pool – anything! I like sports where you can’t hide behind anyone; it’s me vs you.’ – Leon Edwards

‘There is so much hypocrisy in sports.’ – Dennis Rodman

‘In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don’t know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I’m still doing the work I always wanted to do.’ – Greg Louganis

‘You always think as an organization, obviously if you’re in sports, you want to be with ESPN. ESPN is it. But you don’t really realize how good ESPN is and how big their platform really is until you’re in it.’ – Dana White

‘I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.’ – Christopher Atkins

‘You’ve got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you’re involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life.’ – Paul Allen

‘Well, I’m not a big sports fan.’ – Jeff Bridges

‘At some point I was always a curious kid, I played as many sports as I could. I just picked up the golf club and that’s how I started.’ – Jon Rahm

‘Of all the four major sports, whether you like Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, maybe you like Bobby Orr, or you like Larry Bird or Tom Brady – Bill Russell is the greatest athlete to play in Boston.’ – Shannon Sharpe

‘A lot of people don’t realize that I started my career in sports and was a sports reporter long before I was on television. I used to be an NBA reporter and an NHL reporter.’ – George Stroumboulopoulos

‘I have never really had any ugly confrontations, other than Bobby Knight, and that was before I was doing sports talk radio. He is just a very difficult guy.’ – Colin Cowherd

‘Most remember the groundbreaking first in sports; few remember the third or fourth to follow in those tracks. That’s not downplaying anyone’s achievements but rather recognizing that there comes a time when simply being there is no longer good enough for the record books.’ – LZ Granderson

‘I did see the Yahoo Sports story Kevin Iole wrote about how the ratings for TUF go up when there’s a women’s fight in the episode. I can’t lie: it felt really good to see that the UFC fans – not only MMA fans but fans of the UFC who maybe hadn’t seen any female fights before February of this year – look forward to watching the women fights so much.’ – Miesha Tate

‘I’m just not no kid… I was always consistent with everything: school, sports, music, everything. I made sure. That’s how I am.’ – Lil Skies

‘The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call ‘the good old days.’ Fans want the best, wherever they come from.’ – Mario Andretti

‘Sports is like rock ‘n’ roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.’ – Phil Knight

‘The success or failing in one competition doesn’t define you, and that is one thing that any sports would teach you.’ – Sandeep Singh

‘Obviously, I’m a female in sports. You work really hard, you prep really hard, you put a lot into the show, so when you have certain comments, and people are saying, ‘Oh you add nothing,’ or, ‘You got your job because of this.’ Really? Why don’t you look at my master’s degree?’ – Molly Qerim

‘That’s the great thing about sports: You play to win, and I don’t care if you don’t have any wins. You go play to win. When you start telling me it doesn’t matter, then retire. Get out. ‘Cause it matters.’ – Herm Edwards

‘As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.’ – Tim Conway

‘The heavyweight championship of the world was the most coveted title in sports. Everyone knew who the heavyweight champion was. And not only when it was Muhammad Ali or Rocky Marciano: they knew when it was Ingemar Johansson.’ – Thomas Hauser

‘Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.’ – Branch Rickey

‘I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.’ – Matthew McConaughey

‘Where is women’s sports prominently displayed with the men? Tennis is the only thing I can think of.’ – Ronda Rousey

‘I have a Ph.D. in philosophy and sports science. At 14, I went through this really tough Soviet training system. A lot of my roommates got psychologically broken or physically injured. Either you came through, or you were out. I made my Ph.D. work in the field of young athletes aged 14-19 because at this age any human is changing.’ – Wladimir Klitschko

‘The word ‘geek’ today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn’t the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you’re passionate about something.’ – Olivia Munn

‘I was a gymnast for 13 years, so I was heavy into sports.’ – SZA

‘Writing/reading is like visiting another person’s brain. And a short book or article is like a short stay. You come in, have a coffee, talk about the weather or sports, and then move on.’ – Mark Manson

‘There are almost no sports within which mortal accidents are not a reality.’ – Dietrich Mateschitz

‘It was the quest for survival that took me to the world of sports.’ – Milkha Singh

‘I like playing many other sports, such as basketball.’ – Guan Tianlang

‘I wanted to use sports for social change.’ – Billie Jean King

‘Life wasn’t easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.’ – Caitlyn Jenner

‘I was an athlete when I was younger and played a lot of sports, including golf, but I always ended up throwing around my clubs in frustration.’ – Eric Winter

‘As an athlete, that’s something I always take with me. You fall every day, whether it’s in a job, or you miss something else, but you learn how to do it better next time. You learn it in sports. That’s a life lesson.’ – Michelle Kwan

‘I can tell you, I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great parents. I really got some great input from there. They were entrepreneurial, middle-class business people.’ – Jerry Jones

‘I know if you get mad, and in a world with all the competitors I’ve been around in my life, either from fighting or wrestling or other sports, you have to learn to breathe.’ – Markwayne Mullin

‘I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.’ – Todd English

‘I ain’t never did no sports. I just always wanted to rap.’ – Takeoff

‘I come from a small town in Ohio and was always into sports.’ – Jake Paul

‘I’m a big sports fan even outside of baseball. I love watching guys that are supposed to be great, and are great, live up to the expectations. So I really appreciate consistency.’ – Clayton Kershaw

‘It’s been a privilege to get to watch one of sports greatest athletes prepare and get to play with him; honestly… it’s a dream. I remember being in eighth grade saying, ‘I’m Tom Brady,’ on the asphalt at recess, you know, playing football.’ – Julian Edelman

‘I think sports has done a disservice for a lot of black kids thinking they can only be successful through athletics and entertainment. I want them to know they can be doctors, lawyers, teachers, fireman, police officers, etc.’ – Charles Barkley

‘Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.’ – John McEnroe

‘I don’t really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.’ – Norm MacDonald

‘Cleveland, as a whole, is a great sports town. People love the Browns here.’ – Baker Mayfield

‘I grew up in the Boys & Girls Club. That’s where I really started playing all sports, and that’s why I’m a big advocate for the work they do.’ – Frank Thomas

‘I got put into leadership roles very early in life from fifth grade, sixth grade. I always ended up being the quarterback or the leader of the sports teams, and it’s kind of benefiting me now.’ – Tony Dungy

‘I can talk about sports and stuff, but I have a season pass for ‘Antiques Roadshow’ on my TiVo.’ – Paul Rudd

‘I think New York is the greatest sports town there is, and I feel like we’re a part of the buzz.’ – Molly Qerim

‘I had this inferiority complex as a child, as I was not good at speaking. I was also not good in studies or sports and would often flunk in four-five subjects.’ – Suriya

‘There’s good days and bad days in sports. You have to understand that. If you go out and have a bad day, you can’t give up. You can’t quit your career over one bad day.’ – Dan Hooker

‘I think it is easier for thinner people to build on a frame once you get lean muscle. I get bored lifting weights at the gym, and it isn’t enough as your body becomes stiff. So I train in different ways such as core training, cardio with weights, playing sports such as tennis, cycling, swimming and running 10 km once a week.’ – Arjun Rampal

‘I get the ‘The New York Times’ and ‘Los Angeles Times’ thrown at my door every morning. I’ll read the front page of ‘The New York Times,’ then the op-eds, then scan the arts section and then the sports section. Then I do the same with the ‘L.A. Times.” – Aaron Sorkin

‘It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.’ – Lin Dan

‘I love to shop, especially in retro stores. I have about a million pairs of old-school sports shoes like Adidas, so that’s probably my biggest vice.’ – Carrot Top

‘What I mean by being real is just when you are doing dance celebrations, sports celebrations, like the cooking dance or anything like that. When you’re an artist, you want to always try your best to do the homework and see where it originated from.’ – Lil B

‘After college, I covered news for a couple of years. There were things I loved and hated about it. I loved hard deadlines, watching sports for a living, writing every day, learning all about a new town, meeting its people and learning its quirks.’ – Mary Katharine Ham

‘One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can’t get an answer from someone until 5 o’clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn’t get too exciting after a while.’ – Mark Spitz

‘Cricket is a self-sustaining industry; but corporates need to realise that other sports don’t have that luxury. This is the time when they need to invest, and keep the faith. Every sport has the potential to create world champions. Imagine India as a country full of world champions. Why imagine? Let’s just make it happen.’ – Gagan Narang

‘Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.’ – Bob Feller

‘March Madness is an incredible three weeks. I firmly believe it’s the greatest three weeks in sports. You have the Super Bowl; you have the World Series.’ – Dick Vitale

‘I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I’ll leave those things to the men.’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way – either from inertia or prejudice – and they stop you achieving things. It’s the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you’re the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.’ – Daley Thompson

‘All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.’ – Pierre de Coubertin

‘The American people are sheep. They’re comfortable, rich, working. It’s like the Romans, they’re happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.’ – Jack Kevorkian

‘But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.’ – Tim McGraw

‘I played sports. The acting thing was just a direct blessing from the Lord, because I lost my discipline to play sports, and I had this really cool professor grab me and kind of take me under his wing, and the ball just started rolling. Another professor introduced me to my first agent, and the next thing you know, I got to start doing films.’ – Omar Benson Miller

‘Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don’t transform into angels, violence and the threat of violence – as in punishment and deterrence – is needed to rein in our worst instincts.’ – Paul Bloom

‘The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that’s 14 year old boys.’ – Rob Walton

‘I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.’ – Jimmy Carter

‘Children need sports, even if they are inclined towards academics.’ – Brian Lara

‘My brother Barry was into all sports, and so was my late father. For me, hockey was the one sport I loved and played. I didn’t really pay much attention to the other sports.’ – Adam F. Goldberg

‘I can’t divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.’ – Jeff Kinney

‘I never really intended to get into sports. It was my hobby and my passion, and I kind of lucked out.’ – Mina Kimes

‘I love sports, or hiking; you’ll always find me outside doing something.’ – Sydney Sweeney

‘I had talked for years about doing a restaurant with Rocky Dudum, who’s been my friend since I first came to San Francisco. Then Rocky’s son, Jeff, said he wanted to design it, so he traveled around the country to sports restaurants like Mickey Mantle’s and Michael Jordan’s, and he came up with a great concept.’ – Willie McCovey

‘So while you’re an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there’s going to be life after sports.’ – Stedman Graham

‘Some receivers are like sports cars: they have a lot of speed and flair. Me, I’m like an old pickup truck. I just bounce around and try to get the job done.’ – Steve Largent

‘One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college.’ – Sarah Shahi

‘We’re in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.’ – Roger Goodell

‘Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be fun.’ – Mia Hamm

‘We don’t see a lot of models for male social interaction. There’s sports and barn raisings.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn’t quite doing it for me. I wasn’t totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.’ – Rachel McAdams

‘I’ve practiced a lot of different sports. I stopped counting after 15.’ – Albert II, Prince of Monaco

‘Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.’ – Dan Rather

‘If I was invincible, maybe I would take up some extreme sports.’ – Tom Welling

‘The problem with winter sports is that – follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter.’ – Dave Barry

‘I think team sports probably teach you more about giving – about being unselfish and being flexible.’ – Chris Evert

‘Despite the amazing diversity we’re blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.’ – Steve Kerr

‘My mum and dad both worked full-time jobs to send my sister and I to public school, and to allow us to play the sports we wanted.’ – Michael Clarke

‘I like a deep sports massage – a casual beating up. I try to get them whenever I can, usually more if I’m getting in shape for a role.’ – Chris Pine

‘Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.’ – Eddie Rickenbacker

‘I’m blessed to work in sports every day.’ – Molly Qerim

‘There are three legends in sports – Dhyan Chand, myself and Sachin Tendulkar. People will always remember three of us in Indian Sports.’ – Milkha Singh

‘I grew up a Michael Jordan fan; that was my first idol. But my true sports idol was Deion Sanders: he was the person I always wanted to be. I wanted to play two sports professionally, which would never happen, but to me, that was every kid’s dream.’ – Tim Howard

‘The government, in conjunction with major tech companies and the media, has colluded to censor anyone who has challenged the consensus opinion when it comes to masks, the safety of opening schools, whether lockdowns made sense, whether sports could be played, the efficacy of the COVID shot, and where COVID came from.’ – Clay Travis

‘Hulk will always be a part of sports entertainment/professional wrestling history, and there’s nothing that’s gonna change that. His relationship with the WWE, whether it’s official or unofficial, is something that can’t really be erased.’ – Eric Bischoff

‘I was always into sports, and as a sportsperson, you need to be fit to survive and play from start to finish.’ – Disha Patani

‘I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.’ – Robert Huber

‘It’s too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That’s the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.’ – William Sloane Coffin

‘I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.’ – Jason Statham

‘Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports – we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.’ – Samina Baig

‘The judges are trying to make the sports as safe as possible and I was just sorry they thought it necessary to consider me dangerous.’ – Dave Schultz

‘There isn’t quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you’re playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.’ – Patrick Chan

‘Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor’s rights and the fight for peace.’ – Paul Robeson

‘Baseball fans! Good lord! I feel like sports fans get mad at you easier than country music fans. It scares me. I’m glad that country fans don’t get mad every time I mess up.’ – Ashley Monroe

‘It’s my personal opinion, and I firmly believe, that it’s important that I keep sports and politics separate.’ – Jeff Fisher

‘Our children need socialization with their peers and playing sports is a large part of that.’ – Nicole Malliotakis

‘I stopped doing any organized sports at 10 and started dancing.’ – Grant Gustin

‘By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.’ – Michael Bergin

‘I never heard of anyone saying they want to deploy their capital wisely and go buy a sports franchise. What you want to do is just not lose money. You see, I don’t have to work anymore. I tell people I don’t have a real job. On the other hand, I learned long ago that you can’t go broke if you turn a profit.’ – Jerry Reinsdorf

‘Most sports federations, corporations, and governments don’t change voluntarily. Change is brought by the disenfranchised demanding better.’ – Julie Foudy

‘When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.’ – Billie Jean King

‘Growing up, if I hadn’t had sports, I don’t know where I’d be. God only knows what street corners I’d have been standing on and God only knows what I’d have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.’ – Bobby Orr

‘I’m a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age of 13, but parkour is one of those sports that I wish I’d discovered sooner. When my nephew first showed me, I thought, ‘Damn – I’m too old for this.” – Paul Walker

‘As a sophomore, I wanted to play varsity in three sports. And I accomplished that. It was a great feat that year, and something I held special. I wanted to bring a championship team to Oceanside High School, and it happened. It was a great year that I will never forget.’ – Junior Seau

‘We went through this month camp, learning how to bump and hit the ropes. I just fell in love with WWE and sports entertainment. It was the perfect world of the merge in sports, action, acting, and entertainment. I felt like I finally found my place.’ – Lana

‘I’m about 5′ 10″, and my hair is the length of my whole body now. We grow our hair because of faith, but it’s getting heavy. Most of the rastas I know with hair my length are elders, and they keep it tied up, but for a young person who’s active and running around, the weight is a big thing. So to play sports, I put it in a backpack.’ – Damian Marley

‘Radio is the art form of sports casting. If you’re any good, you can do a great job on radio.’ – Chick Hearn

‘Like a lot of people, I pray for a sick relative or that kind of thing, but I don’t pray to make my next flight connection at the airport. I find prayers before sports contests to be insensitive and kind of demeaning, at least when someone prays to beat the other team or something like that.’ – James Carville

‘If I’m going to hand over my classic Italian sports car, and you’re going to be driving it down Pacific Coast Highway with the top down, while I watch, I want to be certain that I’m adequately compensated for the pain of that vision.’ – Gabe Kapler

‘The diet for climbing all the time isn’t really different from the diet for living. It’s not like cardio sports where you’re burning a bajillion calories every day.’ – Alex Honnold

‘I grew up as a swimmer, speaking of sports; I spent a lot of time before school and after school swimming.’ – Sunita Williams

‘Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.’ – Danny Meyer

‘I want to do a movie on sports – like a movie on a racer or a marathon runner – as I feel I’ll fit that bill perfectly.’ – Bipasha Basu

‘College sports are woven into the fabric of our state.’ – Roy Cooper

‘I have always been active and into sports my entire life, and I’ve always wanted to be a star and inspire others.’ – Dana Brooke

‘I think the impact I make is to inspire Filipino female athletes that they can do it as well… A Filipina can be a sports hero.’ – Hidilyn Diaz

‘My dad has always played and coached, so that’s what I knew. I played other sports but always turned toward soccer and had the same love for it as my father. They never forced me to play; I always wanted to. I was always around it.’ – Ali Krieger

‘Whenever I think of baseball, the first name that comes to mind is Babe Ruth. What the Babe was to baseball, Shula is to football coaching. There are certain figures in sports who are larger than the games they play or coach, and Don Shula is one of those.’ – Marv Levy

‘It’s great to listen to men talk about sports or fights or war or even hunting sometimes, but the presence of the other, the presence of art and beauty, which crude masculinity seems to discount, is essential. Real civilization and real manhood seem to me to include those.’ – James Salter

‘The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.’ – Kevin Plank

‘Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it’s inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know?’ – Norm MacDonald

‘I like a lot of sports. Especially football – it’s my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.’ – Rafael Nadal

‘Sports don’t define us; it is not what we live for.’ – Michael Wilbon

‘I love sports. I’ve played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.’ – Michael B. Jordan

‘President Trump wouldn’t stick to politics, so he got to jump into sports. So I feel very comfortable now, moving forward, jumping back and forth. Sports to politics, politics to sports.’ – Shannon Sharpe

‘My four older brothers were my favorite players. That’s why I got into football and sports.’ – Tony Dorsett

‘My first match was against Sputnik Monroe at the Amarillo Sports Arena. It was scheduled for only ten minutes. Sputnik got me down and was on top of me for the first eight minutes. My father came running down to the ring and yelled for me to get up. I don’t know how I got up but I did. I was a lot more scared of my father than I was Sputnik.’ – Terry Funk

‘I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn’t spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.’ – Mads Mikkelsen

‘Tribalism, after all, is part of our evolutionary DNA. The need to identify with a group, to belong and commune with like-minded people is not only biological, it’s what has helped motivate our desire for and devotion to all kinds of important cultural institutions, from organized religion to sports fandom.’ – S.E. Cupp

‘Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.’ – Chris Klein

‘I believe in pan-Africanism. This means that in many things – the judiciary, sports, economics and trade – we want Africanism to be involved, which is basically more freedom for the people.’ – Fela Kuti

‘I started my career as a swimsuit model. My first big break in America was 2007, ‘Sports Illustrated’ Swimsuit Issue.’ – Irina Shayk

‘I think that kids aren’t even exploring the option of sports anymore, and they don’t even know what they could do.’ – Allyson Felix

‘Sports play a very important role in consolidating the national strength, adding lustre to the country’s prestige and honour, inspiring people with national dignity and pride, and imbuing the whole society with revolutionary mettle.’ – Kim Jong-un

‘I watched the Olympics in 2012 in London, and there were so many great performances there, so many people, so many sports.’ – Son Heung-min

‘I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.’ – Kara Lindsay

‘In England I played everything – swimming, athletics, football, rugby, badminton, cricket – all of that stuff. I was in the first teams for all the sports at Brighton, played on the wing in rugby, and ran 100m, 200m, 400m, and did long jump and even the javelin at one point. In the States I did a bit of track, but mainly I was there for the boxing.’ – Chris Eubank Jr.

‘I’m a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There’s others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there’s another type that’s not a visual thinker at all, and they’re the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.’ – Temple Grandin

‘TV is changing in terms of how we are consuming sports. Appointment viewing no longer exists, as between social media and the Internet, people already have the news and can get the highlights – so now people want the opinions.’ – Molly Qerim

‘In politics as in sports, the best defense is a good offense.’ – Charlie Kirk

‘I play a lot of sports. I played football for 12 years, I like tennis, I surf, I snowboard, and I ski. I always like to do an activity.’ – Caroline Winberg

‘Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.’ – Elon Musk

‘Engaging in sports from a young age will ensure physical and mental well-being.’ – Brian Lara

‘Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.’ – George Matthew Adams

‘As we know, all sports evolve tremendously, and our sport is no different. It’s really not the same thing at all as it was in 1972. It’s a different type of horse we’re using. The style of riding is quite evolved, the way the courses are built, the materials used… it’s virtually unrecognizable.’ – Ian Millar

‘If you want to perform at your ultimate best, if you want to be the best you can be in sports and in school, mentally, physically – chiropractic is the way, because everything has to do with your nervous system.’ – Jonathan Lipnicki

‘There were only 75 people in my graduating class at the school I attended in Hannah, S.C. It was a small school and that translated into not a lot of opportunities when it came to music. We had academic and sports programs but we never had a consistent music program. We would have a band one year, and a chorus one year, but nothing ever lasted.’ – Josh Turner

‘It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘At the end of the day, everything is God’s plan, and he cares about what we do. He cares about our hearts, how we play the game, and how we treat people. He’s definitely involved with how we handle sports and not just the outcome of it. I’m proud when athletes mention God in any way.’ – Tim Tebow

‘It wasn’t until 1999 when my idols Mia Hamm and Kristine Lilly took home the women’s World Cup trophy at the Rose Bowl in front of 40 million TV viewers that I remember thinking how rare it was to see women play sports on TV.’ – Alex Morgan

‘I play a lot of sports. I’m not real good at any of them. I’m above adequate.’ – Kevin Nealon

‘F1 has to keep appealing to sports fans and not only to motor racing fans but to possibly a wider public… I don’t know if it’s only social media or different electronic devices that will do that. How to establish more of a personal link to the drivers and to the teams – these are things that you have to think of.’ – Albert II, Prince of Monaco

‘I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!’ – Bikram Choudhury

‘No one likes high school and college sports more than I do.’ – Tate Reeves

‘This is a fast-paced world we live in, especially the sports and entertainment industry. There is a constant demand for performance, for something new, something excellent. That doesn’t just happen. You have to have enough inside to pour out.’ – Maya Moore

‘I stopped watching sports because I didn’t want to watch someone running up and down the field making millions and I’m not doing anything about it. That methodology made me go harder and take control of my career.’ – Joyner Lucas

‘I’m very passionate about the use of sports in young people’s lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It’s been a big thing for me.’ – Ed Skrein

‘I’m a runner from sports. I’ve been a runner, but I wasn’t a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.’ – Scott Bakula

‘I think girls have a harder time than guys do if you’re switching schools. Guys don’t get picked on as long as you’re OK in sports.’ – Pierce Brown

‘I cherished my time playing high school sports.’ – Peyton Manning

‘Sports help women stay in school longer and make them less likely to use drugs, break the law, or get pregnant at an early age.’ – Julie Foudy

‘Continuity is important in sports.’ – Paul Allen

‘I grew up being into sports and I wasn’t trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I’m the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it’s always, ‘OK, one more take for Zac.” – Zac Efron

‘In high school, despite my involvement on four different sports teams, I threw my duties of being a jock out the window and spent my spare time in wrestling training or on the PS2.’ – Kenny Omega

‘If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘Sports psychology or mental training has been viewed as a weakness, and I think that’s a pretty silly way to look at it.’ – Jake Arrieta

‘I believe when the world faces a crisis, businesses and sports have an obligation to step up and make a difference.’ – Michael G. Rubin

‘Women’s sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women’s sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.’ – Billie Jean King

‘I wasn’t picked for any of the sports teams at school because I was half the size of everyone else, but now everyone assumes I must have been some sort of rugby player.’ – Will Poulter

‘Both sports and Scouts are time consuming.’ – Josh Hart

‘I grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, so in Iowa, we didn’t have a pro sports team, so it was all about the Hawks, and everybody was a Hawkeyes fan, and everybody had their black and gold and had something Hawkeye related.’ – Kurt Warner

‘As soon as I was old enough to move and walk, I went straight to sports. My mom said I never even played with toys.’ – Morgan Wallen

‘I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can’t cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen.’ – Abhishek Bachchan

‘I got a job as a football development manager which meant I could coach the students and work with the sports sciences department, all the people in university sector.’ – Graham Potter

‘I’m a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don’t remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio.’ – Norm MacDonald

‘I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn’t skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.’ – Neil Peart

‘I think sports are extremely beneficial for our youth. They parallel life in so many ways.’ – Kerri Strug

‘I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘I’ve always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I’m a very physical person. I’ve always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.’ – Taylor Lautner

‘When I was nine years old, my father went to Spain to work for three years, and I was in Portugal. He has a sports store. I only saw him once a month, which was difficult. I was alone with my mother and my sister, who is younger than me.’ – Ruben Neves

‘I’m really into extreme sports and just having fun.’ – Kellan Lutz

‘One of the most common misconceptions about Olympic sports is that they only happen at the Olympics.’ – Lauren Gibbs

‘I went through a significant illness in 1991 and had some major surgery, and I made up my mind that I have to get my life in order, and the first thing that I would try to accomplish was to get out of the sports business.’ – Norman Braman

‘I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘Confidence is sexy. That’s what ‘Sports Illustrated Swim’ stands for. They have this movement where you can just be beautiful no matter what shape, what size, your height, your body type, your ethnicity.’ – Camille Kostek

‘Sports psychology suggests – and we as players have been taught – that negative self-talk can diminish our chances for success and that the opposite is also true. Given the talent, we can also think and speak our way to success.’ – Gabe Kapler

‘There’s nothing masculine about being competitive. There’s nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don’t know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.’ – Rebecca Lobo

‘Sports fandom transcends gender, race, language, political preference, socioeconomic status, or any other way you can think of slicing this planet.’ – Mary Pilon

‘The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There’s no time to do anything else.’ – Chad le Clos

‘What’s more important than who’s going to be the first black manager is who’s going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.’ – Bill Russell

‘There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.’ – Billie Jean King

‘I enjoyed watching ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’ very much. Many such sports films should be made so that the upcoming generation draws inspiration from the sportspersons of our country, win medals at the Olympics and Asian Games, and make India proud.’ – Milkha Singh

‘When I was 13, tennis became more of my life. It’s when I gave up skiing, I gave up winter sports. I still played varsity basketball my freshman year of high school – basketball was the last sport I gave up for my tennis.’ – Pam Shriver

‘At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of ‘Sports Illustrated.’ I’m on the cover with the blurb, ‘Can Lou Do It?’ I’d just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week’s coverage.’ – Lou Holtz

‘As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.’ – James S. Coleman

‘I am from a sports background, and always wanted to become either a cricketer or footballer; in short, just play some sport and represent my country. I got diverted, but the sportsman in me is still alive.’ – Sonu Sood

‘Ronda Rousey is a groundbreaker. She is one who charts through territory that has never been explored before and is one of the biggest sports stars in the world, male or female.’ – Paul Heyman

‘It’s tricky when you have people tuning in to hear about sports, not politics, but I think in issues where they intertwine, that is not something ‘First Take’ is not going to shy away from and potentially will go to another level than another sports show.’ – Molly Qerim

‘I think when you have big-time businesses around that want to be part of the sports community and the athletic community it’s a huge advantage in the bigger markets.’ – Travis Kelce

‘Wrestling and sports entertainment is not about the moves, it really isn’t. It’s about being able to evoke emotion in one facet or another.’ – The Undertaker

‘When you’re a kid growing up, and you think you’re gay, you know that you’re different; you’re often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.’ – Greg Louganis

‘Winning has become too important in all sports, with too many commercial rewards.’ – Albert II, Prince of Monaco

‘My dad told us up front, ‘Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it’s your decision.” – Peyton Manning

‘The water cooler conversation in every job I’ve had is sports, it’s what did you do this weekend, it’s ‘How are your parents doing?” – Kal Penn

‘I’m pretty quiet. But I love to play sports. I like playing all sports. I’ll act goofy at times around my wife and my son, around my own family. I like to have fun in general.’ – Steve Blake

‘When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan – the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!’ – Indra Nooyi

‘I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.’ – Josh Charles

‘Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.’ – Alan Shepard

‘February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He’s not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.’ – Magic Johnson

‘I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.’ – Joe Rogan

‘I grew up with sports, but I was definitely not good enough to become a professional athlete – I just loved the storytelling aspect of it.’ – Molly Qerim

‘My father was an athlete, a great athlete, fought in the Marines in World War I. He was all sports and activity. My mother was all academics. I still have the complete works of Shakespeare that she had.’ – Marv Levy

‘Regardless of the obstacles or hurdles that are ahead of you, regardless of the opponent, regardless of the odds, your goal and objective always is to win. I think that’s part of sports.’ – Grant Hill

‘I played sports. I had boyfriends. I loved high school.’ – Ann Coulter

‘Books had instant replay long before televised sports.’ – Bernard Williams

‘Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.’ – Avery Brundage

‘The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.’ – Avery Brundage

‘For truly it is to be noted, that children’s plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘I keep getting these extraordinary letteres, really weird ones from American sports stars – I’ve always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you’re single I want to meet you for a drink.’ – Elizabeth Hurley

‘I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men – that they never mature and are always just boys.’ – Krista Allen

‘I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.’ – Vince Carter

‘I’m thrilled, I’m grateful, I’m blessed. I played for the world’s greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.’ – Bob Hayes

‘Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year’s Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn’t come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.’ – Yeardley Smith

‘I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.’ – Mike Piazza

‘Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.’ – Jack Kent Cooke

‘The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn’t really compete against another team.’ – Cal Thomas

‘If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.’ – William Petersen

‘The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can’t limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.’ – Dean Smith

‘Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.’ – James E. Rogers

‘That’s what Major League Baseball’s steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.’ – Suzanne Fields

‘People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press – no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.’ – Michael Lewis

‘The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.’ – Michael Lewis

‘Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I’m on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that’s great.’ – Lisa Leslie

‘I’m glad you’re doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We’re so much prettier than all the other women in sports.’ – Martina Hingis

‘I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.’ – Brian McBride

‘I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.’ – Terrell Owens

‘Professional sports are something they can’t control.’ – Troy Vincent

‘Can they do both? That’s a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it’s everything, you know, it’s social life, it’s academics, it’s sports.’ – Joan Cusack

‘Winning isn’t everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you’re doing it in a way that’s healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity.’ – Andrew Shue

‘The biggest lesson from Africa was that life’s joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time.’ – Andrew Shue

‘And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.’ – Beau Bridges

‘I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven’t had much time to watch too much TV lately.’ – Casper Van Dien

‘I love all sports.’ – Dante Hall

‘Sports are not for everyone.’ – Dante Hall

‘Theatre sports is the best improv training period.’ – Wayne Brady

‘I don’t care what they say about me when I’m through with sports. I don’t want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.’ – Deion Sanders

‘I think that every single person should play sports.’ – Donovan Bailey

‘A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.’ – Matthew Barney

‘The only consistent hobby I’ve had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I’m looking for the next job.’ – William Sanderson

‘Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it’s not fair to remove him from his whole life.’ – Marg Helgenberger

‘Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.’ – Phil Simms

‘We really love all sports, but we don’t think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.’ – Peter Farrelly

‘For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It’s not like we’re denying them hospital care.’ – Mike Davidson

‘All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.’ – Gerry Cooney

‘Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.’ – Jim Sensenbrenner

‘Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.’ – Jim Sensenbrenner

‘Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it’s very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.’ – Roy Clark

‘Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.’ – Esther Williams

‘The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.’ – Esther Williams

‘Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.’ – Esther Williams

‘We’ve finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that’s fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to.’ – Jerry Lawler

‘I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.’ – Rachel Griffiths

‘I don’t have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I’m bullish about the Longhorns.’ – Tom Hicks

‘I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.’ – Jeremy London

‘Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.’ – Jana Novotna

‘We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.’ – Louise Slaughter

‘I’m not that clued up on the American sports yet, really.’ – Retief Goosen

‘I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually.’ – Kylie Bax

‘I mean, sports are big, big, big business.’ – Phil Lesh

‘That’s the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.’ – Bernhard Langer

‘I don’t read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I’m not going to read it. Because I’m not going to let him put an idea into my head.’ – Herschel Walker

‘I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.’ – Shimon Peres

‘I’m sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.’ – Billy Corgan

‘I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don’t look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn’t appeal to me.’ – Kevin Costner

‘I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.’ – Sergei Bubka

‘My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.’ – Sergei Bubka

‘Sports life is very short.’ – Sergei Bubka

‘My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.’ – Sergei Bubka

‘I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.’ – Sergei Bubka

‘My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It’s got politics in it, it’s got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.’ – Kate Clinton

‘I have just come from a couple of raids, where we had a very lively time, and some of them had to pull their guns. I found it necessary to punch a few sports myself.’ – Richard Harding Davis

‘Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.’ – Bruce Dern

‘Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.’ – Lynn Swann

‘Professional sports is a business.’ – Lynn Swann

‘They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.’ – Martin Lewis Perl

‘The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it’s Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria’s Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.’ – Heidi Klum

‘I think Bob Costas is terrific. He’s so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports.’ – Jim McKay

‘Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded.’ – Mary Lou Retton

‘Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.’ – Ian Botham

‘I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it’s in sports, or it’s achieving in school, or it’s achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it’s all about.’ – Sanford I. Weill

‘I’ve always been around dudes and sports.’ – Lisa Guerrero

‘In the morning, I reach for the sports page.’ – Lisa Guerrero

‘On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.’ – Lisa Guerrero

‘You know, we don’t look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.’ – Leigh Steinberg

‘It’s a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.’ – Patricia Heaton

‘I don’t think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.’ – Gregg Easterbrook

‘I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it’s fundamentally a form of entertainment.’ – Gregg Easterbrook

‘Nah, I don’t watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don’t have the time.’ – Eric Bristow

‘As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.’ – Marion Jones

‘The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.’ – Marion Jones

‘I liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports.’ – Julius Erving

‘One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.’ – Julius Erving

‘Boxing, for me, it’s the beginning of all sports. I’m willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that’s something innate in all of us.’ – Omar Epps

‘When you have a background in combat sports, people think you’re this martial arts expert, but really I’m just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.’ – Rick Yune

‘Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.’ – Armstrong Williams

‘I’m nothing more than a sports slave.’ – Dennis Rodman

‘The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.’ – Howard Cosell

‘As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.’ – Lee Haney

‘I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.’ – Kiana Tom

‘I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they’re excited about.’ – Parker Stevenson

‘I like all the adventure sports but I like to do them in a safe way.’ – Catherine Bell

‘If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.’ – James Collins

‘I have a 16 year-old son, so I’m now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment.’ – Brandi Chastain

‘Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women’s Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.’ – Brandi Chastain

‘You’ll be dedicated and that’s what you should want to be in anything in life – whether it’s sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement.’ – Brandi Chastain

‘Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.’ – Trishelle Cannatella

‘I don’t think there’s anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.’ – Warren Farrell

‘Men’s competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.’ – Warren Farrell

‘I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.’ – Dick Schaap

‘It’s kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it’s for the lack of a suitable hero.’ – Dick Schaap

‘When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.’ – Rube Goldberg

‘All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here… We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.’ – Meyer Lansky

‘I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won’t believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation.’ – Garth Brooks

‘It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay – by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.’ – Angela Merkel

‘I’m delighted about the track’s success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don’t think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.’ – Alan Parsons

‘We’re not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.’ – Calvin Klein

‘There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.’ – Rio Ferdinand

‘For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America.’ – Elle Macpherson

‘And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.’ – Ed Bradley

‘I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan.’ – Judd Nelson

‘People here don’t identify themselves by their sports team.’ – Michael Wilbon

‘A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.’ – Ronald Graham

‘We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best – with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.’ – Jurgen Klinsmann

‘We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women’s sports, but we didn’t ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country.’ – Lorrie Fair

‘While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.’ – Jerry B. Jenkins

‘So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I’ve told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn’t out-do my brothers in sports, and it’s a very competitive relationship.’ – George J. Mitchell

‘I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.’ – George J. Mitchell

‘I don’t want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I’m not a big sports fan, and I don’t love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I’d like turning on for some thing specific.’ – Lynn Redgrave

‘My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.’ – Arthur Blank

‘I played professional level sports. When you’re playing for money, it’s a whole other level.’ – Kurt Russell

‘For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can’t put my finger on it, but in a man’s world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.’ – Kurt Russell

‘When you look at golf films before us they’re all – garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can’t beat him.’ – Shia LaBeouf

‘I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.’ – Neal Schon

‘Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.’ – Katarina Witt

‘I’m a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.’ – Verne Troyer

‘I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.’ – Jack Brickhouse

‘The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.’ – Will McDonough

‘One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.’ – Will McDonough

‘I think money in general hurts all sports.’ – Will McDonough

‘I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.’ – Todd Barry

‘We’re going to have more kids playing, and we’re going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.’ – Bobby Orr

‘I think it is that parents just don’t kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.’ – Frank Shorter

‘You know, we – we start with a mentality that we’ll take a sports project if its good. And we’re certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don’t have to. They walk in the door.’ – Jim Lampley

‘I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don’t know.’ – Joan Jett

‘My priority is to turn people – especially kids – on to sports and being active so they don’t even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me – it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.’ – Alan Thicke

‘On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.’ – Alan Thicke

‘If I wasn’t dyslexic, I probably wouldn’t have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily… and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.’ – Caitlyn Jenner

‘I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.’ – Tim Robbins

‘At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.’ – Willie Mays

‘When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o’clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.’ – Willie Mays

‘It’s become another dimension to who I am. I don’t think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I’m at a different place in my life.’ – Cindy Crawford

‘If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.’ – Larry King

‘I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn’t really there yet.’ – Claudio Reyna

‘We’re a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.’ – Claudio Reyna

‘EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world.’ – Claudio Reyna

‘As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.’ – Robert Jay Lifton

‘A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.’ – Jimmy Cannon

‘I’m a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.’ – Ben Hecht

‘Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.’ – Lewis H. Lapham

‘People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.’ – Martina Navratilova

‘Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.’ – Mahesh Bhupathi

‘The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.’ – Paul Fussell

‘In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.’ – Althea Gibson

‘I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.’ – Gerald R. Ford

‘In sports… you play from the time you’re eight years old, and then you’re done forever.’ – Joe Montana

‘Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.’ – Lesley Visser

‘To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It’s great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don’t believe that.’ – Jerry West

‘I’ve been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn’t care.’ – Jessica Biel

‘I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you’re playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.’ – Michael Michele

‘We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can’t just depend on the fact that it is a great game.’ – John McEnroe

‘The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.’ – Samuel Richardson

‘Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.’ – Jay Mohr

‘Competing in sports has taught me that if I’m not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.’ – Ron Blomberg

‘As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game.’ – Herb Kohl

‘I’ve been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I’ve come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.’ – Rosabeth Moss Kanter

‘My parents couldn’t handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn’t resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.’ – Channing Tatum

‘I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports – he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.’ – January Jones

‘Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, ‘If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.” – Laura Hillenbrand

‘Sports without music, it’s nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.’ – Ice Cube

‘I am very slow to warm. I’ve always been sort of a loner. I didn’t play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups.’ – Rooney Mara

‘I sort of try to write everything for me. I’m a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don’t remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio. I’m trying to make sure the jokes are self-contained so they’re accessible to everyone.’ – Norm MacDonald

‘It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level… I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling… things that require stamina, not finesse.’ – Neil Peart

‘I’m a huge sports fan.’ – Marc Anthony

‘My favorite sports movies, I like ‘Remember the Titans’ and ‘Hoosiers’ Jimmy Chitwood, from the corner.’ – Shaun Alexander

‘I’m in the perfect position. It’s a sports position and a political position where I can help better the lives of athletes around the world.’ – Angela Ruggiero

‘The Women’s Sports Foundation holds a unique position in developing opportunities for girls and women of all abilities to be active whether recreationally or competitively, and I’m excited to help lead the organization to impact even more lives. It is an honor to continue to build the legacy created by Billie Jean King and all of our leaders.’ – Angela Ruggiero

‘Over the years, I’ve enjoyed working for WFAN and MSG – two sports giants in the industry. There couldn’t be a better fit due to the long-standing history both entities have had with NY sports.’ – Boomer Esiason

‘My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.’ – Amy Klobuchar

‘We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they can’t do. Like stay home one week and play the next week.’ – David Duval

‘Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?’ – David Millar

‘I never thought I’d make the pages of ‘Sports Illustrated’, because I’ve always been skinny.’ – Carolyn Murphy

‘I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.’ – Chris Moneymaker

‘Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don’t see a whole lot of that any more.’ – Christopher Judge

‘No matter how many years you play, it’s always something new and exciting. It’s sports, you never know what may happen.’ – Curtis Joseph

‘We want to encourage the young ones to learn and get some confidence in sports. It’s fun and keeps you active and moving.’ – Christine Taylor

‘I’m a father of four so whenever I’m not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don’t do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.’ – Christopher Judge

‘I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can’t think of any I don’t love. I’ve even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don’t know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.’ – Sean Astin

‘When you’re a child, no matter if you’re doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.’ – Anna Chlumsky

‘I never played sports. I wasn’t any good at them.’ – Leighton Meester

‘Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.’ – Curtis Joseph

‘Sports broadcasting is very open now. In the beginning you did encounter more traditional attitudes and get comments. But I’m talking about 12 years ago.’ – Kirsty Gallacher

‘I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player.’ – Kirsty Gallacher

‘When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.’ – LeBron James

‘Swimming is one of the hardest sports.’ – Stephanie Rice

‘I’ve realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to provide positive changes and I hope to inspire all of Japan through my strong showing there.’ – Kohei Uchimura

‘There’s steps that I’ve taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we’re going through. This is all stuff that you can say you’re going to make a difference, but I’m putting it into action.’ – Kurt Busch

‘It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.’ – Jennie Finch

‘I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time.’ – Breaux Greer

‘Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.’ – Carmelo Anthony

‘Sports can unify the Iraqi people – no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.’ – Dana Hussein

‘Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my – my brother and I both loved sports.’ – Delta Goodrem

‘I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.’ – Im Dong-Hyun

‘I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.’ – Jenna Bush

‘The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports – football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.’ – Novak Djokovic

‘I’ve always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.’ – Shaun White

‘I always tell people that our sports aren’t that dangerous.’ – Shaun White

‘What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.’ – Shaun White

‘I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.’ – Tiki Barber

‘I’ve been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other.’ – Tim Ryan

‘The ‘Sports Illustrated’ cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, ‘You know what, I really… I don’t want to be a model anymore. I really want to do movies.’ And I think he wanted to wring my neck at the moment.’ – Brooklyn Decker

‘I do appreciate a woman who has a passion for sports and knows their stuff.’ – Jerry Ferrara

‘My biggest pet peeve are just girls who go to sports bars who have no intention on caring what teams are playing, like they’re looking for just a night out. That drives me more crazy than anything else. Like, don’t pretend to be a sports fan.’ – Jerry Ferrara

‘In America, we have three major sports – baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there’s things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.’ – Maurice Greene

‘Playing in New England and the Boston area, the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don’t play well, they’ll let you know so I know it’s not something that they take lightly.’ – Drew Bledsoe

‘I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, ‘Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?” – Mitch Albom

‘Being No. 1. It’s talked about all of the time in hip-hop. ‘I’m still No. 1! I’m the best! I’m the greatest of all time!’ It’s the same mentality in sports.’ – Michael Rapaport

‘I’m a big sports guy – golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding – and I love games.’ – Jason Dohring

‘ESPN has this problem with sports, it’s impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.’ – Drew Curtis

‘A geek isn’t the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you’re passionate about something.’ – Olivia Munn

‘In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.’ – Andy Roddick

‘Just like I find men who talk sports who don’t really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don’t really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.’ – Gabrielle Union

‘I’ve always had an interest in sports across the board.’ – Gabrielle Union

‘I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.’ – Gabrielle Union

‘I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.’ – Rachel Stevens

‘I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.’ – Ricky Williams

‘All I want to know is that I can keep this house for the rest of my days and I want to make good music… and have the odd sports car in the garage, obviously!’ – Jay Kay

‘I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There’s many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that’s exciting to me.’ – Kathy Ireland

‘I don’t put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.’ – Bode Miller

‘Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let’s make it amateur again.’ – Carl Lewis

‘The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you’re going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.’ – Carl Lewis

‘I always separated sports and my personal life.’ – Carl Lewis

‘I’m not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.’ – Charlie Kaufman

‘I’m a sports guy. Football, God, I flip out.’ – David Boreanaz

‘I wanted to play sports my whole life. That’s all I really wanted to do.’ – David Boreanaz

‘My schedule has slowed a little. I’ve cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago.’ – Lesley Visser

‘I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, ‘Don’t back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.’ If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can’t take yourself out of that moment.’ – Michael Keaton

‘I’ve always loved sports and hockey is a sport I play as much as I can. I love it. In a weird way it’s like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one. I mean when I play hockey I don’t think about anything.’ – Michael Vartan

‘I work out, I play sports, I go to concerts.’ – Angie Everhart

‘I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that’s why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead, so it’s always been something I look towards.’ – Alexander Wang

‘I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.’ – Retief Goosen

‘Traveling around, it’s difficult to follow much TV. Mainly I’m somebody who watches sports.’ – Retief Goosen

‘It’s not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.’ – Roger Goodell

‘Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don’t get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we’re almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.’ – Venus Williams

‘In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.’ – Venus Williams

‘I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.’ – Jack Wagner

‘I’ve been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I’m convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn’t come calling.’ – Jamie Foxx

‘Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports.’ – Jeff Garcia

‘I never really was that passionate about playing sports. But when I was at this Mt. Herman school, I did have the ability to throw the frisbee. So when this sport evolved, it was fun because I was good at it.’ – Joel Silver

‘I am so grateful to everybody that supports the Sheckler Foundation, and gives us the ability to continue to help kids and injured action sports athletes.’ – Ryan Sheckler

‘Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.’ – Jack Markell

‘But as a practical matter, Detroit’s the sports city in the country.’ – Rick Snyder

‘So if you want great sports, Michigan’s the place to be.’ – Rick Snyder

‘I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.’ – Joel Osteen

‘I wasn’t really a work-conscious type of person. I was a player. I loved to play sports.’ – Michael Jordan

‘Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples – where I’m pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.’ – Mitt Romney

‘I hate the cliche of ‘just have fun,’ but what I’ve seen in today’s sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids.’ – Hope Solo

‘These ‘Sports Illustrated’ people, they know how to hold a secret.’ – Bar Refaeli

‘It sounds like a cliche, but it… you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.’ – Kenny Chesney

‘There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.’ – Harvey Weinstein

‘I have zero interest in sports of any kind – professional, college or international.’ – Jimmy Wales

‘Even if I did have, you know, a ‘Sports Illustrated’ body, I’d still wear elegant clothes.’ – Adele

‘I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.’ – Dennis Miller

‘Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That’s like a sports thing, it’s not usually a comedy and writing thing.’ – Louis C. K.

‘There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they’re eight years old and they go, ‘Whoa, this is incredible,’ and grow up to do extreme sports. It’s the same for me with acting.’ – Joaquin Phoenix

‘The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.’ – Billie Joe Armstrong

‘I started my cooking ‘career’ aged 15, almost 20 years ago. At the time it was quite a shock suddenly working 75 to 80 hours a week, without time to play football or other sports.’ – Rene Redzepi

‘Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.’ – Phil Knight

‘I’m not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn’t good at sports, I wasn’t good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.’ – Mindy Kaling

‘I’ve had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.’ – Ted Turner

‘I’m so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.’ – Bernadine Dohrn

‘A supermodel needed to be able to be on ‘Sports Illustrated,’ to be able to walk runways, to be able to do beauty ads, to be on covers. And the girls now can no longer be on covers and be in the ads because your actresses have taken over all the jobs. I don’t know what happened, but we want our jobs back.’ – Kim Alexis

‘There’s not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.’ – Curt Schilling

‘I didn’t go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.’ – Jet Li

‘The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.’ – Mark Hoppus

‘That’s the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.’ – John Madden

‘We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.’ – Alastair Campbell

‘Team sports aren’t my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don’t need a partner to go running, you don’t need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.’ – Haruki Murakami

‘I didn’t grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.’ – Aaron Tveit

‘Americans’ addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.’ – Arlen Specter

‘I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don’t think it didn’t happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don’t sell internationally.’ – Callie Khouri

‘I would venture to guess that if I was a construction worker… who requested a transfer to another department for the betterment of his family, I would be commended for it. But because it’s sports, there’s just so much passion added to it.’ – Derek Fisher

‘You cannot mix sports with politics.’ – Jackie Chan

‘If you look at things that really affect people’s lives – sport, the arts, charities – they were always at the back of the queue for government money – health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas – sports, the arts, the lottery – got relatively petty cash from the government.’ – John Major

‘I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He’s a Boston baby and I’m a New York guy.’ – Kevin James

‘There’s a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.’ – J. C. Watts

‘I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That’s kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.’ – J. C. Watts

‘Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.’ – Drew Carey

‘But sports photography isn’t something you just pick up overnight. You can’t do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.’ – Drew Carey

‘Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don’t relate to.’ – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

‘When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.’ – Scott Caan

‘I did everything – I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.’ – Alex Trebek

‘Growing up in the time of Title IX – it was passed when I was 10 – I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women’s sports. Of course I didn’t know it at the time.’ – Jackie Joyner-Kersee

‘When I was in elementary school, we weren’t allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.’ – Jackie Joyner-Kersee

‘Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA’s first NCAA title in track.’ – Jackie Joyner-Kersee

‘I don’t watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that’s it.’ – Larry Hagman

‘I’ve always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I’m always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I’m super-active in that sense.’ – Taylor Lautner

‘Your body’s really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.’ – Joe Rogan

‘When my TV show, ‘Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,’ assigned me to be a ‘Sports Illustrated’ reporter for a weekend, I didn’t realize I’d have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull.’ – Junior Seau

‘I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn’t have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back.’ – Junior Seau

‘I’ve aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing.’ – Channing Tatum

‘One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I’d be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun – especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.’ – Hugh Jackman

‘I’m a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it’s pure.’ – Hugh Jackman

‘My band is so dedicated, everybody works very hard. The No. 1 priority is the show, and it’s pretty cool because we all pull together, and it’s fun. It’s like being on a sports team or something.’ – Bob Seger

‘Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It’s played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they’re always using music. And it goes together, you know.’ – Ice Cube

‘I’m girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.’ – Carrie Underwood

‘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. Bartlett Giamatti

‘When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.’ – Mike Royko

‘I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.’ – Joe Namath

‘I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.’ – Joe Namath

‘Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front.’ – Joe Namath

‘Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn’t make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind.’ – Joe Montana

‘I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.’ – Bobby Fischer

‘I play sports.’ – Josh Hutcherson

‘Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.’ – Lucy Powell

‘I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.’ – Samantha Stosur

‘I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there’s any time left over, then I play sports.’ – Mark Zandi

‘I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.’ – Yani Tseng

‘I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character – teaches people about leadership and cooperation.’ – Mo Rocca

‘My sister is totally my dad’s daughter because she loves sports.’ – Ashley Tisdale

‘I don’t want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts.’ – Elizabeth Hurley

‘I enjoy sports in person.’ – Shania Twain

‘One reason outfielders don’t have stronger arms might be they don’t practice as much as we did. Most teams today don’t take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now – basketball, football, soccer – for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.’ – Al Kaline

‘I played a lot of sports and it’s the plays in basketball that weren’t worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don’t know the power that’s within our own bodies.’ – Dave Brubeck

‘I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I’m a happy guy. It’s such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always.’ – Dean Cain

‘In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn’t very good at sports.’ – Martina McBride

‘I had no interest in sports so I didn’t make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.’ – Zach Braff

‘As a kid who wasn’t into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.’ – Zach Braff

‘I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if I want to watch my favorite sports team it might not be showing in that place, so I want a reliable way to watch whatever I want to watch on my laptop.’ – John Legend

‘I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn’t going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.’ – Seann William Scott

‘I’m the kind of guy that if I don’t work out, I will get bigger and look like one of the guys who used to play sports.’ – Seann William Scott

‘Some people train for certain sports and I want to train to be able to hold a super heavy electric guitar and carry luggage around myself because I always have to have 7,000 pairs of shoes. Who cares about sports?’ – Lisa Loeb

‘When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren’t glued to computers because they didn’t exist, so being active was all we knew.’ – Lisa Loeb

‘I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.’ – Dr. Dre

‘A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get – and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.’ – Eliot Spitzer

‘That’s the biggest problem with boxing in the United States. They do not promote it like they used to, when it used to be Howard Cosell and they showed it on ‘Wide World of Sports.’ Everybody knew all the fighters. Everybody was looking forward to the year when the Olympics came on.’ – Evander Holyfield

‘That’s what I’d like to do on the President’s Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day.’ – Florence Griffith Joyner

‘A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.’ – Andy Murray

‘Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister’s head using alginating plaster.’ – J. J. Abrams

‘I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I’m not talking about acting or anything like that, I’m talking about people I admire, whether it’s a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.’ – Benicio Del Toro

‘We’ve just got to be careful – with all sports, let alone cricket – I think there’s so much emphasis on doing the right thing all the time, but I think the public want to be entertained when they come to watch sport.’ – Shane Warne

‘I did a shoot for ‘Sports Illustrated,’ and my grandpa called me and asked when my issue of ‘Playboy’ was coming out. It was hilarious as well as embarrassing.’ – Jasmine Tookes

‘Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.’ – Ivan Lendl

‘I’ll go out, but I leave early, before the shenanigans. I don’t really do the Hollywood party thing. I’d rather watch sports or play videogames or work out or sleep, to be totally honest.’ – Cory Monteith

‘My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports… and life.’ – Alexander Ludwig

‘I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!’ – Fergie

‘I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.’ – William Landay

‘And I watch ‘Saturday Night Live’ religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams.’ – Ty Burrell

‘I’m not a big sports fan.’ – Harlan Coben

‘I don’t necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It’s caring about something that’s utterly meaningless.’ – Harlan Coben

‘The power of a sports team in a community it’s almost indescribable.’ – Wendell Pierce

‘The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.’ – Wendell Pierce

‘I love sports and I love sports movies.’ – James Van Der Beek

‘I’m a huge, huge sports fan, and Marquette basketball is my No. 1 thing.’ – Danny Pudi

‘Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.’ – Jason Lee

‘I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie’s in the West Village, New York City, near my house.’ – Gail Simmons

‘I remember when I was growing up, I always wore glasses and so if I was on-stage or just being able to move around playing sports, I was never really able to because I had glasses holding me back. Wearing contacts has just been very helpful.’ – Joe Jonas

‘I am a sports fanatic and being able to perform at halftime for the fans of the Steelers and the Jets is such a thrill for me.’ – Joe Nichols

‘That’s what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity.’ – Joe Nichols

‘Don’t let anyone turn you into a slave. You’re a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.’ – Ben Carson

‘I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.’ – Cam Gigandet

‘In fact, there’s a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.’ – Chad Harbach

‘I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It’s a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.’ – Chad Harbach

‘I played sports in high school and in college.’ – Jon Bernthal

‘I’d just like to be good at sports. I’m extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.’ – Kaitlin Olson

‘I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that’s all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I’m supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.’ – Elliot Page

‘I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can’t, because if I get injured, I’ll impair whatever film I’m working on.’ – Elliot Page

‘I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the ‘Daily Pennsylvanian’ and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.’ – H. G. Bissinger