My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club.
If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.
One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.
The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.
Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded.
I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.
As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women's sports have arrived.
I'm a sports guy. Football, God, I flip out.
When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go ou...
Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.
I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.
Some people train for certain sports and I want to train to be able to hold a super heavy electric guitar and carry luggage around myself because I always have to have 7,000 pairs of shoes. Who cares...
If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were...
It's funny I'm in some ways hopelessly masculine, but I don't fish, I don't hunt, I'm not that into sports. I can't fix a car. I think it's my point of view and the way I see the world.
Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this.
Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.
The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive of organized sports, a world of 'systems' and 'programs' and scripte...
I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.
Slumps in life are like soft beds. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.