We hope that the Commonwealth Sports movement is playing a meaningful role in the wider global conversation around tolerance, empowerment, and legal recognition for all.
Tom Daley
HopeSportsLegalToleranceMovement
Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the mentality behind playing team sports and playing for one another and playing with friends.
Brian O'Driscoll
SportsTeamFriendsUnderstandKids
It sucks. When you're a woman in sports, people want you to show some skin.
Gretchen Bleiler
SportsWomanPeopleYouSkinWant
In sports, everything is a process.
Nick Foles
SportsProcessEverything
I've played sports pretty much my whole life, and that teaches you how to work with anyone, whether you like that person or you don't, and whether you get along with them or you don't. The circumstances don't matter. Team work is part of life.
Mehcad Brooks
LifeWorkSportsTeamYouPerson
I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.
Kaley Cuoco
LoveGirlSonSportsDirtyGo
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
SportsIntelligencePlayWayOnly
I don't see the arts as competitive at all. It was a better angel of my nature. Sports is zero-sum: winner, loser, demonstrable.
Richard Linklater
NatureSportsAngelBetterWinner
We were sent outside to our backyard to play sports together all the time - no boy and girl differentiation, just two teams playing.
Cathy Engelbert
GirlSportsTimeTogetherPlayBoy
I like action-based sports, and kabbadi is my favourite. I wanted to be associated with a sport on which I really believe in, and so I bought a team in World Kabbadi League, and Toronto will host my team.
Yo Yo Honey Singh
SportsTeamWorldBelieveWillHost
I grew up in a very 'Friday Night Lights,' sports-focused town. I did not play the sports. I was never bullied physically, but I was called names. I was also an overweight kid. I knew what it's like to feel like the other, to feel written off for things that were not in my control - my appearance, my interests.
Robin Lord Taylor
SportsControlNightFridayFeel
Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.
Armstrong Williams
ConfidenceDreamsSportsDanceSelf
I'm not a sports person, but every now and then, I incorporate sports in my rhymes because I'm always grabbing from certain things and getting inspired by something whether I'm totally involved in it or not.
Gza
SportsPersonNowNow And Then
Canadians see the Americans as cousins. We love the same sports: Canadians are crazy about baseball and basketball, and our beloved game of hockey is played all over the U.S.
Margaret MacMillan
LoveSportsBaseballCrazyGameSee
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard
SportsFootballBaseballGameHockey
Sports can't be run by governments.
Kapil Sibal
SportsRunGovernments
I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.
Jon Runyan
LifeSportsStepMeTeamEgo
Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
Nolan Ryan
LifeFamilySportsBaseballTough
I was always very different from the other kids. I have an I.Q. of 156. I didn't play sports. I thought big. I thought I could achieve great things. I don't want to sound megalomaniac, but my whole life is about doing something for the world, from as far back as I can remember.
Chade-Meng Tan
LifeSportsGreatWorldThought
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky
GoodSportsGreatHockeyGoingPuck
We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.
Roger Goodell
LeadershipSportsFootballPeopleUp
The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
Avery Brundage
EducationSportsPeopleEndYoung
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Hunter S. Thompson
SportsWeirdTurnGoingProGets
Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.
Marg Helgenberger
LifeWorkSportsMeFriendsNow
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