“I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.”
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“I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.”
“I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.”
“There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.”
“That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.”
“I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups.”
“Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.”
“Sports is the toy department of human life.”
“Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.”
“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.”
“I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.”
“I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.”
“Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.”
“I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.”
“I'm not a big sports fan.”
“I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.”
“There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.”
“I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.”
“The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields they laughed all the time.”
“I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.”
“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.”
“I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don't want a girl who's too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I'm saying.”
“Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.”
“I wanted to use sports for social change.”