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- On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.
- Alan Thicke on Sports
- On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.
- Lisa Guerrero on Sports
- 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 on Sports
- One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
- Knute Rockne on Sports
- 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 on Sports
- 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 on Sports
- One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.
- Michael Shannon on Sports
- 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 on Sports
- 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.
- 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 on Sports
- Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.
- Peter Ueberroth on Sports
- 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 on Sports
- 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 on Sports
- 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 on Sports
- 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 on Sports
- People have called me Superman my whole life. In various sports, that seems to be the common theme. My favorite superhero is actually the Incredible Hulk. He's the only superhero that can't die.
- Robert Griffin III on Sports
- People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.
- Michael Wilbon on Sports
- People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.
- Martina Navratilova on Sports
- 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 on Sports
- 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 on Sports
- Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce on Sports
- 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 on Sports
- Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
- Frank Gifford on Sports
- Professional sports are something they can't control.
- Troy Vincent on Sports
- Professional sports is a business.
- Lynn Swann on Sports
- Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and it's all different.
- Michael Mandelbaum on Sports
- Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
- 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.
- Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.
- Jana Novotna on Sports
- 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 on Sports
- 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 on Sports
- Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
- Vince Lombardi on Sports
- Since my induction into the Sports Hall of Fame, I have wanted to have my No. 3 Chevy on exhibit for sports fans to see. I hope others will enjoy the car as much as I have.
- Junior Johnson on Sports
- Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
- Dave Barry on Sports
- 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 on Sports
- So if you want great sports, Michigan's the place to be.
- Rick Snyder on Sports
- 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 on Sports
- 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 on Sports
- Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography.
- Peter Guber on Sports
- 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 on Sports
- Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
- Barry Switzer on Sports
- 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?
- Sometimes in football you have to score goals.
- Thierry Henry on Sports
- 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 on Sports
- Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
- Avery Brundage on Sports
- Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my - my brother and I both loved sports.
- Delta Goodrem on Sports
- 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 on Sports
- Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.
- Lynn Swann on Sports
- Sports and politics don't mix.
- Eric Heiden on Sports
- Sports are a microcosm of society.
- Billie Jean King on Sports
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