You can't do anything to help your team win when you don't play.
A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.
I know it's not a one man team win or lose.
There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.
I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.
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.
...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, ...
I won an MVP trophy with the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Association. I didn't even start. I was a sub on this team. This was, like, an All-Star game where we had athletes from different teams, different mixtures. We had, like, the only black team in ...
Great team can accomplish great works.
We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.
You would not want me on your football team.
Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team.
Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.
I like to work in a small team. There is only 18 of us on the design team. Nobody has ever left.
