You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport.
The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses.
I don't consider lacrosse a sport. To me that's just a frat activity that got out of hand.
News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.
Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.
I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45 when he played baseball.
Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.
I did a shoot for 'Sports Illustrated,' and my grandpa called me and asked when my issue of 'Playboy' was coming out. It was hilarious as well as embarrassing.
I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury.
In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.
I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
I do, have done and always will believe that I am very capable of performing and thriving at any level of the sport.
My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports.
As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.
If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.
Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.
We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.
That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.
I have strong interests in supporting sport, primarily football, and also in developing cultural relationships within national communities and their diasporas, with special reference to Ethiopia.
