When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!
By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.
When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.
The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.
A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.
Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.
...Lance is the inevitable product of our celebrity-worshipping culture and the whole money-mad world of sports gone amok. This is the Golden Age of fraud, an era of general willingness to ignore and justify the wrongdoings of the rich and powerful, ...
Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.
Learn good things from professionals but do not change like professional,it doesn't mean on what position they are..
The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional.
All the things you're not supposed to do at the beginning of your professional life - transgressiveness, arbitrariness and violating expectations - you find more attractive at the end of your professional life.
I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.
What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.
What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The sensationalism has taken over the professionalism.
As a producer, I'm trying to challenge myself to just make something that is of a professional quality - not necessarily pop music, but maybe in the sense that Nine Inch Nails is professional quality.
The world of extreme sports is also one of big business. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors.
If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can change lives.
To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.
We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
