I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.
I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.
I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.
My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.
What is nice about this sport is that I am responsible for most everything.
When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.
Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.
Since the break-up of the 1990s, Russia has not had winter sports facilities. All the winter sport venues were effectively located in countries that are no longer part of the federation. There is a strong argument for saying Sochi's legacy will be th...
I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambitions.
Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.
In all Games, there is always a tendency, particularly in the lead up to the Games when there isn't much sport to talk about, to write about things that are not sport.
There's a difference between hurting when you lose and being a bad loser. You don't compete at the highest level of sport to feel comfortable about losing, but you behave in a civil way when it goes wrong because that is the flip side.
I think every athlete will tell you no matter what sport you're in, when you train so hard and when you care so much about doing what you do, there's a little bit of nerves that come with that. But nerves that won't prevent you form performing, nerve...
In football, every play, play after play, there's that physicality. Football players only play once a week, so they must really need to rest. That does kind of tell you how physical the sport is. But in hockey, you have the boards. I just couldn't sa...
Acting was something I did growing up. I never it took it too seriously; it was just one of those things I got into high school and was like, 'Nah, I don't want to continue acting.' Cause I got into it professionally by local theater, and from there,...
I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.
IndyCar is what it is and in the back of our minds we all know it is a dangerous sport.
I would like to do a sports movie.
A career in entertainment has a lifespan, like one in sport.
I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.
That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.
