Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.
Arlen Specter
SportsGreatCompetitionPotential
I was always interested in skateboarding, BMX bike riding, flipping, gymnastics. Anything with tumbling, turning, twisting, and extreme sports.
Gza
SportsBikeRidingAlwaysAnything
As you become a legend in the game, you build more doubters than you build supporters. And that's fine. I think that comes with anything that's challenging. I think it even comes with sports. The older that Michael Jordan got, I think the more doubted he became.
Nelly
SportsGameThinkLegendYouBecome
Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.
John Lahr
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I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.
Kara Lindsay
SportsSchoolCoolTheatreFriends
Editorial imagery licensing includes celebrity, entertainment, sports, and news images that capture what is happening in the world around us.
Jon Oringer
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My first motion capture game was with Sony - 'NBA: The Life.' It was very ahead of its time. Brandon Akiaten, he was the writer and director. He had a real vision of what this game was meant to be; it was a basketball game where I was the Jerry Maguire sports agent type guy. And it was great!
Nolan North
LifeSportsVisionGreatTimeGame
The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There's no time to do anything else.
Chad le Clos
SportsTimeDayYourselfSacrifice
Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
Wayne Brady
SportsBestTrainingTheatreImprov
Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.
Roger Kahn
SportsBestGolfTennisPlayed
I grew up in Cleveland, so my heart got attached at a young age to the freight train of sadness that is Cleveland sports.
Anthony Doerr
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Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood Broun
CharacterSportsBuildReveal
Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit... but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that's a different beast.
Marc Blucas
SportsYourselfSacrificeTeamBlame
I tried golf for a while, but I wasn't very good at it, so I didn't play a lot of golf. I enjoy all sports, not just football. I like basketball, baseball, and I got into the World Cup. So really, sports in general are my life, and football specifically.
John Madden
LifeGoodSportsFootballBaseball
When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships - they watch games because their husbands watch. They're interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it's a way to spend time with family.
Indra Nooyi
FamilyWomenSportsTimePlayWay
In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.
Don Yaeger
SportsNew YorkTeamProfessional
I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end, you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
Norm MacDonald
LoveSportsSimplicityWorldEnding
I never use the word 'hero' in sports. Hero is way above 'star.' I save 'star' for sports. Sports is entertainment; that's all it is.
Bud Grant
SportsHeroEntertainmentWayNever
Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
Yanni
SportsPainMeEmotionsAthleteGet
My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports.
Rob Lowe
GoodSportsSchoolDeepDarkStudy
Skating is one of those sports you unfortunately see people get stuck in.
Ashley Wagner
SportsPeopleYouSkatingSeeGet
Badminton in Beijing is huge - it's one of their top three sports.
Howard Bach
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I am a fan of winter sports.
Lee Min-ho
WinterSportsI AmFanAm
Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.
Robert Griffin III
SportsFootballTalentTeamMindset
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