“I did a shoot for 'Sports Illustrated,' and my grandpa called me and asked when my issue of 'Playboy' was coming out. It was hilarious as well as embarrassing.”
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“I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.”
“I played sports in high school and in college.”
“Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.”
“Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.”
“Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.”
“They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.”
“You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.”
“Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.”
“What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.”
“I've always loved sports and hockey is a sport I play as much as I can. I love it. In a weird way it's like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one. I mean when I play hockey I don't think about anything.”
“In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.”
“My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.”
“I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time.”
“A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.”
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
“My schedule has slowed a little. I've cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago.”
“Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don't see a whole lot of that any more.”
“I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.”
“My dream was always to be on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated.'”
“Sports is all about money.”
“Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.”
“Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.”
“Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.”