3 December 2020 Greg Louganis When you’re a kid growing up, and you think you’re gay, you know that you’re different you’re often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.
3 December 2020 Venus Williams In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.
3 December 2020 Lynn Swann Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.
3 December 2020 Steve Garvey The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.
3 December 2020 John McEnroe We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can’t just depend on the fact that it is a great game.
3 December 2020 Rick Yune When you have a background in combat sports, people think you’re this martial arts expert, but really I’m just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.
3 December 2020 Bob Hope If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.
3 December 2020 Stedman Graham So while you’re an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there’s going to be life after sports.
3 December 2020 Curt Schilling There’s not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.
3 December 2020 John Cleese I was always a sports nut but I’ve lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.
3 December 2020 Neil Simon Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
3 December 2020 Tom Landry Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
3 December 2020 Benicio Del Toro I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I’m not talking about acting or anything like that, I’m talking about people I admire, whether it’s a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.
3 December 2020 Kiana Tom I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.
3 December 2020 Dean Cain I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I’m a happy guy. It’s such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always.
3 December 2020 Greg LeMond Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
3 December 2020 Greg LeMond You don’t suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.
3 December 2020 Lewis H. Lapham Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
3 December 2020 Sean Durkin Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work – any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.
3 December 2020 Gabrielle Union I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
