Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.
Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.
The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.
We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop.
Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business.
Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.
Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.
I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
I like playing sport. I'm a bit of a design enthusiast, and like spending time with my girlfriend and mates.
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it.
The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.
I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.
You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.
Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.
No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.
All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
As a sportsman, my aim was to help sportspersons grow. The idea is to see what is good for sport rather than what's good for individuals.
Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing.
