My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition
Since I was a kid, I've wanted to do sports for a living. In the beginning, I played a lot of soccer, but in the end I chose tennis. I love sports in general ... But tennis is my passion.
When Sunday loses its fundamental meaning and becomes subordinate to a secular concept of weekend dominated by such things as entertainment and sport, people stay locked within a horizon so narrow that they can no longer see the heavens.
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.
Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity and serendipity than discipline ruins the opportunity for genuine self-expression in sports, acting, or the tea ceremony.
All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race because they can leap over barriers, religions, leap over barriers of race, politics.
I'd be willing to bet you, if I were a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.
With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.
Football is the best, is the biggest sport in the world.
I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.
Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.
For sure I would be a very emotional captain. A very hands-on captain.
I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.
A half marathon is a good way to have a bit of fun and race against those girls and learn a bit more about them.The world half marathon is a world championship at the end of the day and it's important. I've win it twice and it's a quality event.
I can't imagine living and not running.
I'm a firm believer that all sports will eventually be global. Someday, we may have a quarterback from China named Yao Fling.
I was well-rounded, I'd been to college. It wasn't that I couldn't do anything else. I wanted to stay in sports, but if I couldn't think, how was I going to play?
If you want to do something, anything, with all your heart, you will find a way.
In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.
I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
