Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.
Good sports facilities are a blessing.
I’ve always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.
Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.
Sports and education, I think they overlap.
People have tried to push me into other sports, but it’s always been football.
The greatest thing about sports, to me, is just the crossover into everyday life.
Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.
My dad told us up front, ‘Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it’s your decision.’
You know you have a gambling problem when it’s 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you’re walking around going, ‘Hey you get the lacrosse scores?’
I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
I’m just not no kid… I was always consistent with everything: school, sports, music, everything. I made sure. That’s how I am.
Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today’s headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections.
I didn’t know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I’d go down. I was hoping it was sports, like so many kids.
I want my kids to be able to live comfortable and go to school and to be into sports.
When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
I think I’m skilful enough, but I don’t consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.
I’ve never been in the top three of Sports Personality. And I won’t be in the top three again. You have just got to accept what it is.
In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.
My dream was always to be on the cover of ‘Sports Illustrated.’
I always step back and look at – you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It’s not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.
My goal was to build a meaningful sports business that operates at the highest levels in the areas of business that we compete in. I have an intense desire to be successful, and I’m extremely competitive.
Every guy should have a fantasy sports team.
I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.
‘The Iliad’ includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit under pressure.
