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I played team sports, but I never felt like I fitted in that well, so this allowed me to be part of a community but to do it in my own way.
Any sport you're going to do, you're going to lose more than you win. People don't realize how hard it is to be an athlete. It's difficult.
I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.
When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.
Coach Landry was a master at maintaining discipline and creating an environment where ordinary people could achieve extra ordinary results.
I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it
Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.
Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.
They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.
Baseball caps never go out of style and are easy to wear. Beyond baseball, beyond sports, I really do think a baseball cap is for everyone.
The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.
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.
I've always had a great interest in sports that embody the values of commitment, hard work and teamwork - all values I strongly believe in.
It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.
Vitali [Klitschko] does want to fight me, but his promoter wants to be bigger than him. This is another situation of politics in the sport.
If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.
Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move across the rink of life.
I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager, and never, ever your uniform.
He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.
Growing up, I wanted to be a sports commentator. Then my aunt introduced me to the fashion industry, and everything sort of fell into place.
You can't just look at the back section of the newspaper or the sports section by itself. You need to understand everything that's going on.
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.
I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.
To surrender one's vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.
My love for sports will never die. I love martial arts and I want to promote it in whichever way I can. I am a fighter first, then an actor.
The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one.
Extreme sport has only ever been about goals and the ways to achieve these goals. Adrenaline plays a part, but it's never in the foreground.
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.
There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.
I think the proper attitude toward fighting sports is one of ambivalence. You can be drawn to them, but you should also be repelled by them.
I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport.
You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.
You gotta be a good sport! So when I would lose, I would say, "That guy was better than I was; what do I have to do to be better next time?"
The only sport I really get into is snowboarding. Cause that's the only sport where they perform a half pipe just after smoking a full pipe.
Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.
I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up
I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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.
You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you're battling with everything you have. That's the real fun of the game.
Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active.
I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.
Gymnastics has given me everything in my life. I will continue to stay involved and try to give back to the sport that has given me so much.
I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up.
I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.
I met a guy yesterday, 7 feet tall. Yeah, handsome, great big guy, 7 feet tall! ... I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.
Any time there's racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything's supposed to be fair.
For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.
Our sports are totally different, if Lance Armstrong himself were to come and train with us he'd be completely exhausted after half and hour.