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Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls.
It isn't the sign of a good sport to go out among other people when one has a cold: it is the sign of a selfish and ill-advised person.
It is difficult to single out one sport over another, but if I have to name one in my separation suit, it will undoubtedly be football.
Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.
I instantly connected with the sport and I have fond memories of growing up on my skating rink that my dad made for us in our backyard.
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
My job is to teach them to believe they could perform better than they realize. Great coaches teach athletes to go beyond the barriers.
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.
I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.
You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.
On Chris Evert: Before I even met her, she stood for everything I admired in this country: poise, ability, sportsmanship, money, style.
When we stage the Olympics it will inspire kids all over the country. A kid in Scotland or Ireland will be encouraged to take up sport.
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.
While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team's victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent
It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will be among the greats of the sport.
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.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
I don’t believe for a second that weightlifting is a sport. They pick up a heavy thing and put it down again. To me, that’s indecision.
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.
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.
I'm very down-to-earth and approachable, and I can be one of the guys and watch sports... I like to cook - I'm like the girl next door.
Playing professional sports, it's important to eat healthy and take care of your body. In the offseason, rest is really important to me.
The Olympics are great, but they only truly mean something when the moments that come out of them are bigger than the individual sports.
You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.
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.
When you have a dream you have to work hard to achieve that dream. Your dreams when you are young can be the force that keeps you going.
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.
In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen.
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.
Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.
You can't do sports for the rest of your life; I don't care how good you are. You can be the best ever, but it's still going to go away.
You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.
Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network... They have more companies they can get money from.
Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.
Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.
It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.
I know I've made huge gains in my confidence, and knowing more about my racing and myself as a person. That has made me a better athlete
Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.
I've been around fighters enough to know that you have to be able to give 100 percent of your effort and time into training for a sport.
Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.
We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.
I got to direct a human interest sports drama - to this day, one of my proudest achievements in my career and a source of undying pride.
Environmentali sm isn't a spectator sport. You actually have to stand up and demand that we be vigilant in protecting our air and water.
The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.
When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.
I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.
Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.
I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens.
I say to the young blokes, when you get asked for an autograph, don't knock it back because there'll be a time where no one will ask you.
Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.