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Above all, such sports as judo, in my view, teach people to relate to each other. They teach us to respect a partner, teach us to understand that an externally weak partner can not only put up worthy resistance, but, if you relax and take too much for granted, may even win.
— Vladimir Putin
I watch movies and sports. I can count on the fingers of my hand the number of times I have watched an hour show. I never watch a half-hour show, and I never watch myself.
— William Shatner
Most people think the character I do onstage is the way I am offstage, but I'm just a regular guy who spends time with his family and who turns on the television and watches a lot of sports.
— Don Rickles
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
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 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
Tennis has been around for so long - women have been playing the majors since the 1800s. Other sports have not had professional leagues for women for as long.
— Venus Williams
Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
— Venus Williams
I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.
— Venus Williams
My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports.
— Rob Lowe
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
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
Pittsburgh felt like the perfect size of a city to me. There's enough to do, but it's not like living in a circus. I also really loved how sports-enthusiastic Pittsburgh people are: how proud of their sports they are.
— Joel Edgerton
There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.
— Sylvester Stallone
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
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'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.
— Billy Corgan
I'm actually a fan of all of the EA Sports titles like 'Tiger Woods,' 'Madden,' and I'm really looking forward to buying 'NBA Street V3.'
— John Cena
My dad is not a sports guy but was drawn to the theatrics of wrestling.
— John Cena
The ESPYS are about appreciating moments in sports and not looking down on it because it's maybe not your favorite athlete or your favorite team.
— John Cena
Unlike other sports, which are largely determined by individual athletic ability or team strength, NASCAR requires its competitors to cooperate in order to win.
— Charles Duhigg
On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.
— Nancy Gibbs
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
Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.
— Alex Berenson
Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.
— Alex Berenson
Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate.
— Helen Fisher
My brothers were funny, and there was a lot of shtick and comedy and nastiness and violence and fighting and sports.
— Alec Baldwin
Not many countries establish a prize for peace. The Seoul Peace Prize has its roots in the 1988 Summer Olympics when this country opened its doors to people and athletes from more than 160 countries. Korea did so in part because it believes in the power of sports for peace and development.
— Ban Ki-moon
If there was a template for success in sports, everyone would follow it. You do the best you can and trust the people you trust.
— Mark Cuban
Owning a popular sports team is very different than any other type of business. They don't throw parades when Apple has the biggest quarter in corporate history. People don't call and email asking for anyone from the team to come visit their sick child. They don't cry as they request a jersey of their child's favorite player to be buried with them.
— Mark Cuban
Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
— Joyce Carol Oates
I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.
— Carrie Underwood
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
Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.
— John McEnroe
I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.
— Jason Bateman
A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion.
— David Shields
Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than your city-state because our city-state's team beat your city-state's team. My attachment to the Sonics is approximately the reverse of this.
— David Shields
I'm a sucker for sports movies.
— David Shields
The movie - any sports movie - becomes a praise song to life here on earth, to physical existence itself, beyond striving, beyond economic necessity.
— David Shields
Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.
— David Shields
When I was studying at the Iowa Writers School, I read a sports writer, Ron Maly, from the Des Moines Register. He was a good sports writer. I became real interested in the contrast between Lute Olson, who was the coach of Iowa at the time, and Ron Maly.
— David Shields
I think of sports writers as mediating between two worlds. Athletes probably think of sports writers as not macho enough. And people in high culture probably think of sports writers as jocks or something. They are in an interestingly complex position in which they have to mediate the world of body and the world of words.
— David Shields
Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can't possibly be solved within the realm of sports.
— David Shields
What Olympians eat can vary tremendously depending not only on the events they're competing in, but also their body type and lifestyle outside the Olympic arena. Their diets are affected not only by the demands of their sports, but by everything else in their lives, things that are almost impossible to accurately measure and factor in.
— Chuck Norris
Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. These were name changes that worked. But for all the ones that do, there are 10 or 20 that don't.
— James Surowiecki
In Tulsa, it was sports or nothing.
— Bill Hader
When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP, and the MVP in the history of team sports is Bill Russell.
— Bobby Knight
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
I want to support kids that not a lot of people believe in. Give them an opportunity to do good in school, play sports and get scholarships.
— Tim Tebow
I was a sports kid.
— Mahershala Ali
In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
— Sam Hunt
I've always craved winning. It's just easier in sports because there's a scoreboard.
— Sam Hunt
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
I don't watch too much TV when it comes to sports or news or things like that.
— Colin Kaepernick
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'm getting more and more bored with professional sports, but I still watch.
— Michael Keaton
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
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
Mayweather Promotions - we are the past, the present, and the future of sports and entertainment, and everybody knows Mayweather's pay is better.
— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
I come from a very athletic family. But I didn't have the typical Jewish sports heroes. I mean, like lots of Jewish kids I admired Sandy Koufax. But I didn't look up to him as the one person who gave me the desire to push on and succeed. My brothers did that for me.
— Bill Goldberg
What passes for sports coverage is terribly sycophantic.
— Billy Crystal
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
In order to develop the country's sports in line with the great leaders' ideas and plan of developing Juche-based sports, our Party directs great efforts to the work of the sports sector.
— Kim Jong-un
Building a sports power is a patriotic undertaking aimed at translating into reality the plan and wish of the great leaders, who devoted their efforts to building ours into a country that prospers and grows stronger on the strength of sports.
— Kim Jong-un
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
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
— William James
It's always been such a big part of my life to be fit and healthy and be outside and run and play sports. It gives me energy. Sometimes, I have these days where I don't do anything because I have the days off, and I just need to relax, and I actually get more tired.
— Caroline Wozniacki
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
Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean's statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players.
— Douglas Rushkoff
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.
ABC wouldn't be a player in the news major leagues until the 1970s, when Roone Arledge brought to ABC News the energy and programming approach he had applied to ABC Sports.
— Tom Brokaw
I've got some great stuff in my sports memorabilia collection. But my favorite thing by far is the robe. I actually have a Ric Flair robe with 'the Nature Boy' on the back. That's awesome. When I look at it, it brings back so many memories of my childhood and my teen years.
— Darius Rucker
Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.
— George Foreman
I'd have to say losing the title to Ali in '74 was the lowest moment in sports for me. It was the most devastating thing in my boxing career, and it still hurts to this day.
— George Foreman
My sister is totally my dad's daughter because she loves sports.
— Ashley Tisdale
Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
— Tavi Gevinson
I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.
— Nadia Comaneci
I started my career as a swimsuit model. My first big break in America was 2007, 'Sports Illustrated' Swimsuit Issue.
— Irina Shayk
No one pretends anymore that the Olympics are just about sports. It's routine to talk about what effect holding the Games in this or that capital will have on the host country's international reputation, how a nation's prestige can be raised by its medal count.
— George Packer
The Olympics are never just about sports.
— George Packer
If the presidential nominating process were an international sports competition, one would assume that top officials of both parties were taking envelopes of cash from town chairs in Durham and precinct captains in Waterloo.
— George Packer
Of course the first version of an all-electric sports car is going to be expensive.
— Jason Calacanis
I don't do sports, really.
— Stellan Skarsgard
In various fields, such as science, technology, sports, business and the arts, immigrants enrich our culture every single day.
— Charles B. Rangel
I did play other sports growing up. I played cricket and all those other things, but I was just so much more talented in golf, and that's all I wanted to do.
— Jason Day
I'm into outdoor sports like hiking, windsurfing, water-skiing.
— Nikki Reed
I read a lot growing up. It was kind of my comfort, you know; I loved it. I love story. I love narrative. I was academic. I wasn't particularly athletic. I didn't make the drill team. I didn't go out for sports.
— Julianne Moore
If you want experiences to make you a better person, then you play two or three sports.
— Jim Brown
Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.
— Danny Meyer
Restaurants and chefs have become followed by such a broad swath of the public, in a way that used to be reserved for sports stars, movie stars, and theater actors. Restaurants are in the firmament of today's common culture.
— Danny Meyer
I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
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 grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.
— Michael Pena
It's so important for kids to get involved with sports in general at a young age.
— Lindsey Vonn
I get very into my sports.
— Margot Robbie
I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I'm quite good at individual sports, but I was not good at team sports, so I wasn't good at baseball and football.
— Tom Ford
I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.
— Omari Hardwick
I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
— Omari Hardwick
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
When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.
— LeBron James
I remember growing up, having sports to go to, having recess, those were the things I looked forward to. Yes, I'm an athlete, but I had buddies who weren't, and they looked forward to it, too.
— Ashton Eaton
If somebody wants me to do something I've never done, I can do it more easily because of all of the years of sports I've played.
— Ashton Eaton
I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.
— Susan Orlean
I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.
— Susan Orlean
I'm not good at a lot of things. I am not good at keeping my room clean. I am not good at eating healthy. I am not good at sports anymore. I used to be! Not so much anymore.
— Zendaya
The 2006 federal Internet gaming statute is not ambiguous. It does not prohibit gambling on fantasy sports.
— Eric Schneiderman
Our investigation has found that, unlike traditional fantasy sports, daily fantasy sports companies are engaged in illegal gambling under New York law, causing the same kinds of social and economic harms as other forms of illegal gambling and misleading New York consumers.
— Eric Schneiderman
Daily fantasy sports is neither victimless nor harmless, and it is clear that DraftKings and FanDuel are the leaders of a massive, multi-billion-dollar scheme intended to evade the law and fleece sports fans across the country.
— Eric Schneiderman
Daily fantasy sports is much closer to online poker than it is to traditional fantasy sports.
— Eric Schneiderman
Unlike most traditional, season-long fantasy sports sites, which make most of their money from administrative fees and advertising, FanDuel and DraftKings take a cut of every bet. That is what bookies do, and it is illegal in New York.
— Eric Schneiderman
Predominantly I'm an Adidas guy who walks around in sports gear all the time because there's always a ball right next to me somewhere. I do a lot of sports, but I do enjoy wearing a lot of suits.
— Mads Mikkelsen
I haven't watched that much TV, to be honest. To be honest, I don't watch that many films anymore - partly because I don't have time; secondly, because I watch a lot of sports, and I love watching sports.
— Mads Mikkelsen
I go to the pub, hang out with my family - that's pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I'm actually a pretty mellow guy.
— Mads Mikkelsen
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
Where is women's sports prominently displayed with the men? Tennis is the only thing I can think of.
— Ronda Rousey
Judo was one of those sports where they give you guidelines but then try to tell you to develop your own style.
— Ronda Rousey
If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head.
— Caitlyn Jenner
I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.
— Caitlyn Jenner
Sports saved my life.
— Caitlyn Jenner
My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports.
— Caitlyn Jenner
It's so great to watch sports live. I think everyone should watch it up close once, if possible. I would like to see every sport live at least once to fully appreciate what's happening on the court or on the field or on the ice or whatever the playing surface may be.
— Diane Lane
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
I think, without question, the way someone plays sports shows something about inherently who they are, you know?
— Hill Harper
I started modeling when I was about 2 or 3 years old; I started with Baby Guess, and I did Guess Kids, and that was the extent of my modeling career as a kid. I took all of my elementary, middle and high school years off to focus on school and sports.
— Gigi Hadid
I love sports - I used to play volleyball really competitively...I went to Junior Olympic qualifiers, and I've ridden horses my whole life.
— Gigi Hadid
I come from a very sporting family and played many sports as a lad.
— Martin McGuinness
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
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
When you think about the NASCAR brand, it resonates everywhere. They have the No. 1 sports brand.
— Magic Johnson
I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.
— Magic Johnson
My work ethic is from sports.
— Magic Johnson
Seven has always been my lucky number. It's on my guitar pick; in sports, that was always the number I was, and 'Riser' is my seventh album. With this album kind of coming to an end and having seven nominations at the ACMs, it feels like a bigger story in play for me, and it's the perfect number. I wouldn't have wanted eight!
— Dierks Bentley
I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Major League Baseball, but I had this knee injury...' Yeah, probably not. It's a big thing with men and sports, where they think they could have touched that thing.
— Christopher Guest
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
Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections.
— Condoleezza Rice
Growing up, all I did was play sports. I always loved music, but I never even thought I'd be on stage one day.
— Cole Swindell
After I went to college, I realized that no matter how much I loved sports, I was ready to have fun, and that was right when I started to sing.
— Cole Swindell
For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer group. It's a much more complicated and elusive proposition for adults, subject to the responsibilities and vicissitudes of grown-up life.
— Meghan Daum
I always tell writers that it's good to have an area of expertise. It's a really practical answer, I know, but know about science or about sports or about medicine, so you can work as a science writer or a sports writer. Don't just know about yourself.
— Meghan Daum
Every successful sports season I had included detailed daily itineraries. We received one in the morning and one before practice, and they set us up to win.
— Lewis Howes
I never played sports or got into the whole guy camaraderie of, like, 'I love you, man! Seniors forever!' So suddenly being in the military with these guys who were under these very heightened circumstances, isolated from their families, living this very kind of Greek lifestyle, it changed my life in a really big way.
— Adam Driver
Let's face it: in advertising, you are paid more, but you die younger. It's not very forgiving. Like sports stars, you're in it during your better years, and then you're out looking for work.
— Jerry Della Femina
I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s.
— Jesse Eisenberg
I'm not much involved in sports, and I don't play, either.
— Kriti Sanon
Sports can't be run by governments.
— Kapil Sibal
Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.
— Kapil Sibal
If there are malpractices in sports, part of the solution lies in the organisations themselves taking a very strong view and cleaning up the mess from within.
— Kapil Sibal
When I was really young, I can remember being into fashion, but I was really into horses and sports.
— Kendall Jenner
Sometimes emotions can win fights. Sometimes letting your feelings out in a fight can win you the fight. When it means the world to you, it's not just a sports contest - a boxing match for money or belts.
— Tyson Fury
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
My exercise regime is a mix of gymming, marital arts, sports, etc.
— Sushant Singh Rajput
What's been missing from regions outside of Silicon Valley is a 'playbook.' In American football, a playbook contains a sports team's strategies and plays. It struck me that every region needs its own industry playbook on how to compete globally.
— Steve Blank
Immigrants use debt intelligently. They understand the difference between active debt: creating a business, or something to make business better, and dead debt: buying that new sports car or the 60 inch television. Those things don't lead to the good life. They delay getting it.
— Fabrizio Moreira
Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Sports. I cofounded this organization in 2005 to help people with physical disabilities get involved in action sports, go snowboarding, skateboarding.
— Amy Purdy
I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
— Daniel Cormier
I've never been in the top three of Sports Personality. And I won't be in the top three again. You have just got to accept what it is.
— Mo Farah
Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs to work on developing new heroes and personalities. I'd like to see more vignettes on fighters, focusing on their lives, goals and stories. Boxers need to be larger than life.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I'm honoured and delighted to be named the 'Irish Times'/Irish Sports Council Sportswoman of the Year 2014. This has been an amazing year for me and for Irish women in sport, and I would like to congratulate all the finalists in their respective fields who have excelled at major sporting events.
— Katie Taylor
If you look at all aspects of all sports, everything comes down to basics and fundamentals.
— Robbie Lawler
Adidas is one of the biggest companies in the world. To have a company like that, a mainstream company, a major sports company, to say they want me, it's awesome.
— Robbie Lawler
That's really what drew me into wrestling. To see my own uncle put on the mask every Friday to go into the ring, and me putting on his masks to play wrestle with him. It was a whole different world when it came down to sports.
— Rey Mysterio
I am excited to join Combate Americas on NBC UNIVERSO, and look forward to building this incredible MMA sports brand and supporting the extremely talented athletes on its growing roster.
— Rey Mysterio
I photographed all kinds of sports - Formula 1, Formula Atlantic. And anybody who knows me knows that, from the day they invented video cameras, I used to lug them around when you had to carry the pack here and the big camera here, plus the diaper bag and a baby and the purse or whatever.
— Christie Brinkley
I remember my first 'Sports Illustrated' shoot was with the photographer Walter Iooss, and Julie Campbell was the editor, and we were at the president of Mexico's private house in Cancun - this was before anything else that's now in Cancun even existed. And they told me to get a tan, so I spent all morning in the sun, and I was burnt.
— Christie Brinkley
When doing sports... on the water, it's crucial to stop aging by protecting your skin.
— Christie Brinkley
Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.
— Azim Premji
Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.
— George R. R. Martin
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
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
The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves.
— Jeffrey Kluger
Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent.
— Will Self
If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding.
— Will Self
I hit my knees and I went to him with that and I said God I want to do what you want. I don't want sports to be an idol in my life.
— Ben Zobrist
Outside the Olympics, there are massive discrepancies within all sports. But the positive side for me is that the Olympics are the biggest platform there is, and there's total equality across all sports.
— Lizzie Armitstead
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
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.
— 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
International soccer has been a big part of my love for the sport. I love the Men's National Team. I can say that they're my favorite sports team.
— Drew Carey
Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
— Tommy Lasorda
The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.
— Malcolm Gladwell
When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
— Malcolm Gladwell
In tennis, you can have a bad set and still win. The part of track cycling that is difficult to find in other sports is that it's so final; there's no second chance if you make a mistake.
— Victoria Pendleton
It would be great to be recognised for my achievements, but Sports Personality isn't about that.
— Victoria Pendleton
When we do 'Sports Illustrated,' it starts the night before. You do a St. Tropez tan that night, then baby oil gel, then body color.
— Chrissy Teigen
When I was a kid, the idea of gettin' paid to paint your face... listen, I grew up in Ossining, New York, a nice little town by the Hudson, and nothin' ever interested me except being your usual high school big shot, which I was an' loved it, played all the sports and goofed around, always out on the street with the guys, everything was funny t'me.
— Peter Falk
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
I remember running at school sports day, and I would win everything, but I wasn't a super athlete or a superstar at high school.
— Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
I have a great deal of respect for any women that will enter the world of little boys of sports.
— Jennifer Garner
Some anthems are great for sports. You've got the Russian national anthem... 'O Canada,' how wonderful is that for hockey... but I chose the Italian national song because at my first World Cup, I saw the Italians play four times, and they won all four times - they won the championship.
— George Vecsey
When I was a kid, my father brought home the autobiography of Sid Luckman, the great Chicago Bears quarterback - probably an extra copy from the sports department where he worked. It was the first sports biography I ever read.
— George Vecsey
Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.
— George Vecsey
There may not be much future for the kind of sports column I did.
— George Vecsey
I know, I know - men have that extra hero gene in their foolish makeup; it's part of our charm. But I happen to know some women who have their inner sports hero, too.
— George Vecsey
This occasional sports columnist, who has been to his share of Super Bowls, had been glad to be home on Super Bowl Sunday, but the scary commercials made me want to be in the melee of the arena, where you are not aware of commercials.
— George Vecsey
I will always treasure the privilege of writing the 'Sports of The Times' column.
— George Vecsey
In recent generations, women's sports have been a blessing. Some of us can remember the bad old days in the '50s, when we would discover in casual schoolyard play that a girl could outrun most of us or hold her own in basketball or hit a softball - but there were no teams, no coaches, for girls.
— George Vecsey
Some religious guys in sports give the impression, 'I've got something you don't have.'
— George Vecsey
Some of the most inspiring moments in sports have come from players with physical defects. Tom Dempsey, born without toes on his right foot, kicked a 63-yard field goal in 1970, using a straighter, wider shoe.
— George Vecsey
Youth sports could not exist without millions of volunteers and modestly paid coaches who teach our children how to skate and catch and dribble and also how to get along with others.
— George Vecsey
Hockey suffers from being compared to itself in ways that other sports are not. Every four years, some of us fawn over Olympic hockey, a great event with bigger rinks, minimal goonishness and national pride in addition to the heightened skills of veritable all-star squads.
— George Vecsey
I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
— Rachel Nichols
Michael Phelps is a sporting god among men. It is hard to say if anyone will ever match his accomplishments, but it has been an honor to see him become a legend. He makes me proud of the American sports institution and proud of the sports that get mass attention only every four years.
— Johnny Weir
Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by newspapers and magazines. They were my TV. I'd be the first one up to grab the morning paper, mainly to look at the sports pictures, the war pictures.
— Dan Jenkins
The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'
— Dan Jenkins
The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.
— Dan Jenkins
Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!
— Dan Jenkins
When I first started designing sportswear, I felt that women weren't represented in sports performance. I felt that men were dressed really well both technically and visually, and women were almost like an afterthought.
— Stella McCartney
I'm a character and a sports entertainer and a wrestler, but I'm also a father and a husband and a provider.
— Roman Reigns
I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.
— Bernie Mac
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
— John Madden
Sports has always been a pass-through. You pay for something, and then you pass it through to television, you pass it through to advertisers, or you pass it through to season-ticket holders, luxury boxes and then the fans. Then it all adds up, and you take in more than you pass out.
— John Madden
I tried golf for a while, but I wasn't very good at it, so I didn't play a lot of golf. I enjoy all sports, not just football. I like basketball, baseball, and I got into the World Cup. So really, sports in general are my life, and football specifically.
— John Madden
I was an old tackle riding around talking to people about sports. Like I've said to a lot of people over the years, 'I only go where old tackles go, and if an old tackle does not belong there, I'm not going.'
— John Madden
Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
— M. J. Rose
People forget that track and field is one of the hardest sports because we compete against all the world. There are many sports when you are up against only 15 or 20 countries.
— Greg Rutherford
I was quite lucky: although my dad worked a lot, whenever he was free, he would play sports with me and my brother, and I can't wait to do that with my child.
— Greg Rutherford
It will be good fun finding out what sport baby's good at; perhaps it will be something obscure. My parents were fantastic at taking me to training sessions and letting me try lots of different sports, so I want to do the same.
— Greg Rutherford
I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up playing the violin and piano. I've always been like that.
— Geoff Dyer
I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.
— Graydon Carter
I enjoy sports in person.
— Shania Twain
The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.
— Abby Wambach
When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.
— Abby Wambach
There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
— Aaron Sorkin
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
I was into sports and dancing. I ran track. I have a lot of stamina.
— Jennifer Lopez
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 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
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
— Pete Rose
I like Barack Obama as a person. He's articulate, he knows sports, his brother-in-law's a coach. He always has the athletes to the White House. But I don't know about some of his policies and some of these people in Congress.
— Pete Rose
I had come across a few sports psychologists, and I had no time for nearly all of them. I just don't think they work in a team environment.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I've never bought a sports car.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I have done 'Sports Illustrated,' but I don't regret it because it portrayed me in a positive way - as an athlete.
— Alex Morgan
I rarely felt or noticed any real divide between girls and boys when I was growing up. Maybe it was because I was so involved in sports and competed with the boys. Maybe it was my mom and dad, who constantly instilled confidence in me and never made me feel as though there were boy activities and girl activities.
— Alex Morgan
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 started off playing sports when I was five years old. I played three or four sports all throughout the year.
— Alex Morgan
I am huge water sports fan. I love to jet ski, speedboat, water ski. So I love to get away to somewhere sunny and just get on the water and have some fun with some friends.
— Douglas Booth
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'm a big sports fan in general.
— Luke Bryan
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
Regardless of what people think of the WWE, we're great at storylines; we're great at drawing money. We're great at causing controversy, and when the other sports do it, they usually do better. It keeps it interesting and makes it fun for the fans.
— Shawn Michaels
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
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
He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
— Jack Nicklaus
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
When I think about dropping team sports and picking up surfing and also then geeking out radio control planes and gadgetry and all that stuff I love, that's what really now has led me in big part to GoPro.
— Nick Woodman
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
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've aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing.
— Channing Tatum
My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.'
— Peyton Manning
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 cherished my time playing high school sports.
— Peyton Manning
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
I've always had a foot in everything. As a kid, I was active in sports and theater. Now, I'm learning I have to focus a bit. I'm trying to get to next projects, like writing a screenplay. Once that comes together, I could put my mind to another book - maybe a fun kids' book.
— Maz Jobrani
I don't do sports, and my idea of hell is being dragged around ruins/museums/famous buildings, so I guess I'm a beach bum.
— John Niven
I think it reaffirmed something that I believed in and conceptually always had faith in which was that you're most effective when you work as a team. I love that about filmmaking. I stopped playing team sports at 15-16 because of acting. I think I find a kind of new team sport in filmmaking in a way.
— Will Poulter
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
'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit under pressure.
— Katherine Dunn
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 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
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
I played sports growing up in high school.
— Erin Heatherton
Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.
— Adele
Maybe because I am from a sports background, I don't give up easily. I am a fighter.
— Deepika Padukone
In track years... track is not like other sports. You do have track athletes that stay in this sport until, like, 35, 36, but I think when you get to 28, it's really difficult.
— Usain Bolt
I didn't know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I'd go down. I was hoping it was sports, like so many kids.
— D. B. Sweeney