It is naive to think that sport is above politics, that any kind of level playing field exists, or that sport allows the world to put its problems on hold.
I see great things in baseball.
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
Swimming is simply moving meditation.
I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.
Who else, when we stepped to the line in Torino, was going to be so mentally tough? Who else would have proven to himself that he could do anything he set out to do? In a sport that was always one tic...
I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on d...
I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.
I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.
It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.
Sports and politics don't mix.
As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.
I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.
Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.
These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.
We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country.
And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.
One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an ex...
I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crus...
Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?