“In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.”
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“There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.”
“I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.”
“Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I've always had an interest in sports across the board.”
“I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.”
“I'm nothing more than a sports slave.”
“There is so much hypocrisy in sports.”
“My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.”
“A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.”
“The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.”
“I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.”
“There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.”
“I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.”
“I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.”
“It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.”
“I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'”
“Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.”
“There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'”