“But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.”
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“So if you want great sports, Michigan's the place to be.”
“I remember when I was growing up, I always wore glasses and so if I was on-stage or just being able to move around playing sports, I was never really able to because I had glasses holding me back. Wearing contacts has just been very helpful.”
“Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.”
“Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.”
“Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and it's all different.”
“I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.”
“I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.”
“As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.”
“We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.”
“I started my cooking 'career' aged 15, almost 20 years ago. At the time it was quite a shock suddenly working 75 to 80 hours a week, without time to play football or other sports.”
“I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.”
“Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.”
“I'm a sports guy. Football, God, I flip out.”
“I wanted to play sports my whole life. That's all I really wanted to do.”
“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”
“One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.”
“That's the biggest problem with boxing in the United States. They do not promote it like they used to, when it used to be Howard Cosell and they showed it on 'Wide World of Sports.' Everybody knew all the fighters. Everybody was looking forward to the year when the Olympics came on.”
“Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.”
“That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.”
“But I was very much into sports when I was a child.”
“I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.”
“And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.”
“I love sports and I love sports movies.”