3 December 2020 Jason Bateman I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.
3 December 2020 Esther Williams The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.
3 December 2020 Richard Ford 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.
3 December 2020 Jackie Joyner-Kersee Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA’s first NCAA title in track.
3 December 2020 Kurt Russell For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can’t put my finger on it, but in a man’s world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
3 December 2020 Carla Gugino When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It’s black and white. It’s win or lose.
3 December 2020 Branch Rickey Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
3 December 2020 Emma Bunton I’m not a big sports fan, but I love it when they ‘slam dunk.’ That’s sexy.
3 December 2020 Warren Farrell Men’s competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
3 December 2020 Shaun White What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.
3 December 2020 Martina Hingis I’m glad you’re doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We’re so much prettier than all the other women in sports.
3 December 2020 Curtis Joseph No matter how many years you play, it’s always something new and exciting. It’s sports, you never know what may happen.
3 December 2020 Michael Lewis The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.
3 December 2020 Sergei Bubka My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.
3 December 2020 Mike Singletary Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
3 December 2020 Christy Mathewson Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
3 December 2020 Retief Goosen I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.
3 December 2020 Neal Schon I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.
3 December 2020 Joe Namath I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.
3 December 2020 Willie Mays When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o’clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.
3 December 2020 Jeff Garcia 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.
3 December 2020 Steven Van Zandt Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It’s like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.
