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.
In all kinds of sports, you have to get the confidence going within before you can start proving people wrong or right.
Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?
That’s the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
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.
I think Bob Costas is terrific. He’s so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports.
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Chicago Special Olympics prove a very fundamental fact, the fact that exceptional children – children with mental retardation – can be exceptional athletes, the fact that through sports they can realize their potential for growth.
Sports is the toy department of human life.
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
We want a clean and effective Olympic body where it can help us and Indian sports to grow and we athletes can represent our country and our flag once again.
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.
I think we have tremendous media covering the sport of boxing, even if boxing is a little bit lost in popularity with MMA sports. And I think that with the show ‘Lights Out’ it’s going to get more attention to the sport, and it’s going to put more attention to the problems that athletes in general have.
I’m not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.
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.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
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.
Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
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.
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.
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
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.’
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
I think every school in the world should have a sports program.
Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.
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.
My dad told us up front, ‘Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it’s your decision.’
Sports is something that transcends generations, transcends backgrounds, cultures, races. And so the power of sports is real.
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.
My father is a huge horse racing fan, so I was introduced to the sport long before ‘Seabiscuit.’ But the role made me an even bigger fan. Horse racing is one of my favorite sports.
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.
I’m nothing more than a sports slave.
I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.
The sports page records people’s accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man’s failures.
I think that every single person should play sports.
My work ethic is from sports.
I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.
It is important to find a way to take sports forward. However, it is important to have certain stipulations in place like restriction in terms of age, tenure etc.
We’re a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.
I’m a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.
Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.
The integrity of the game is everything.
I’m a sports junkie, and I am interested in athletic will – how you exceed the expectations of your own performance when it counts to deliver something beyond yourself so that you can win.
Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It’s like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.
I’m a sports lover. Not just cricket – I play badminton and football, too. When I get some time off, I prefer to play sports rather than working out.
You know it’s going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
I was always a mean and lean athlete – not tall – not large.
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.
Atlanta is Exhibit A in my belief that the marriage between hip-hop and sports is a failure.
Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.
I wasn’t really a work-conscious type of person. I was a player. I loved to play sports.
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.
If a man can beat you, walk him.
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.
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.
Sports in Indonesia aren’t being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don’t match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.
I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.
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.
