Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.
The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it.
There's something about being at the tournaments that you don't really get on TV, although golf is a great sport to watch on television.
I tried to play every sport. I wasn't great at most of them, but at least I tried!
Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
In the end, the great leveler in any sport is performance on the field or on the court. Kids don't care what language players speak or if they eat tacos, rice, or sauerkraut. They don't care if they're white, black, or brown.
Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman.
Tennis is such an individual and competitive sport, but it is great being part of a team and getting to know the girls outside of tennis - even though we are all competing for the same thing!
More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.
We need a system where all of our teams have the opportunity to compete and to make a few dollars. That's not a bad desire for collective bargaining for a sports league, and it's great for our fans.
New York is great, but the New England fans are probably the most knowledgeable and ardent fans, and not just in baseball, but all sports. But Red Sox Nation is Red Sox Nation.
The great thing about America, what I've loved about it, is how sports-friendly it is. In America, sports are respected and loved.
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
I'm naturally athletic. I've been involved in sports since I could walk. So, for me to be sedentary is just unacceptable. Not only is it great for your physical body, but it gives me more energy during the day if I've worked out. I feel better. I loo...
I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport.
Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
The sport needs a personality, not a fighter. We've got plenty of great fighters in the sport, but no personalities. No one is standing for anything. The last personality we had was Mike Tyson. He stood for something. It wasn't much, but he stood for...
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.
When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.
