I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning climber.
'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.
You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'
In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.
I have been listening to sport and watching sport on the BBC since I was a tiny boy.
I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
There are many benefits to a sports entity breaking news directly to their recipients: the entity has full control over the message and how it is shared versus previously relying on a media outlets to translate or distribute as they choose. Also, the...
I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.
Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.
Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.
For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.
Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.
A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.
It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on...
Every Olympic athlete prepares differently. For me, I am 100 percent into the sport. And if I decide to really make a crucial career decision to say, 'This is something I want to do,' I want to leave no stone unturned in my preparation.
I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.
So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
I like to make my fights exciting and different. Everybody in UFC can fight; we're capable of kickboxing, wrestling, but I like to stand out. That's what I really pride myself on. What can I do to stand out from the other people in my sport.
In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.
The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.
I'm in the perfect position. It's a sports position and a political position where I can help better the lives of athletes around the world.
