“As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women's sports have arrived.”
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“I think that every single person should play sports.”
“I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.”
“I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.”
“Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.”
“I am a huge sports fan.”
“One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.”
“I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.”
“People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.”
“I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.”
“Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.”
“The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.”
“Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.”
“I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.”
“I like all the adventure sports but I like to do them in a safe way.”
“And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.”
“If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.”
“We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they can't do. Like stay home one week and play the next week.”
“I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.”
“Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports.”
“I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.”
“If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.”
“Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind.”
“I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head.”