I enjoy sports, and love being involved in any outdoor sport from volleyball to softball. I’m not being immodest when I say I’m a natural athlete.
I’m 19 now, and I go to The New School in New York, where I study Criminal Psychology. My first week of second semester was during Fashion Week when my first editorials in ‘CR Fashion Book’ and ‘Sports Illustrated’ came out. It was crazy!
When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP, and the MVP in the history of team sports is Bill Russell.
I know my game pretty well, and that is the secret to success in most sports.
I had kind of left college. I wanted to study to be a sports teacher, but I had that little inner voice within me that said, ‘You should be doing something else,’ and I followed that gut instinct.
Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the life of a footballer, and I guess that is true across most sports now.
I’m one of these people that likes adrenaline and new things, like extreme sports. It makes me feel alive.
I learned early in sports that to be effective – for a player to play the best he can play – is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.
Don’t use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson’s cellar instead of investing in your book.
If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.
The problem with winter sports is that – follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter.
Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.
Sports is something that transcends generations, transcends backgrounds, cultures, races. And so the power of sports is real.
I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week – every Saturday night.
I wasn’t good in school. I didn’t do sports. I sat in the bedroom and listened to records. Because the Beatles did whatever they wanted to, I took that as a kid and said, ‘That’s what rock is.’
I’m not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.
There’s that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant – which is how reporters bust their way into meetings and such all the time. In sports, I really think winning is the great disinfectant.
I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.
I was always a tomboy. I always wanted to be around the boys, always wanted to play sports – basketball, football, kickball, whatever it was. I was real aggressive. I wanted to be around the bros!
The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.
I liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports.
I’m a team player. I’ve, you know, played team sports my whole life, at least as a kid. And I believe that you have to subordinate yourself to the greater good of the team.
I’m a sports junkie, and I am interested in athletic will – how you exceed the expectations of your own performance when it counts to deliver something beyond yourself so that you can win.
In high school, I played basketball, volleyball, soccer, baseball, badminton – two sports every season – and I was named female athlete of the year twice.
I’m a chilled-out guy, and I really like sports and to play badminton and squash.
