Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.
Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
Business and investing are team sports.
Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.
Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.
Why did God make tigers so good at catching prey, and at the same time make prey so good at getting away from tigers? You'd think that if God wanted one thing or the other to happen he'd have engineered it rather better. Maybe he enjoyed the spectator sport?
Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.
The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.
The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
[Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes it look gorgeous. Some gymnasts think if their arm is bent a little it doesn't matter, but Nemov understands it matters.
Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph.
What I saw so clearly when I started climbing was adventure. Difficulty was only an ingredient. I never thought to wonder about grades, just as I never thought to wonder what Tarzan might bench press. I found the closer I moved to sport, the closer I felt to science - and the closer I moved to adventure, the closer I felt to greatness.
Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.
Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.
I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
I probably visualize myself, the shots I'm going to get in the game, how I'm going to play defense, what we have to do to stop the other team's best player, what it's going to take out of me, the whole aspect of the game.
I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.
Robot Wars is not a sport. Guys just play with remote controls. Now, if they were wired up and got an electrical shock each time their robot got hammered, then, yes, it would be a sport.
I instantly connected with the sport and I have fond memories of growing up on my skating rink that my dad made for us in our backyard.
I don't think anybody ever really just retires where they don't do anything.
This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.
In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other things like religion, sports, politics, a book - we want to forget ourselves. Anytime we have leisure, we want to invite something else to enter us, opening ourselves to the television and telling the television to come and colonize us.
Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault.
No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
