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I don't recall Pakistan ever mixing sports with politics. - Sarfaraz Ahmed

I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere. - Dr. Dre

I work out a lot, but I like to do action sports. A lot of surfing, mountain-biking. - Julia Mancuso

Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends. - Curtis Joseph

Quickness and momentum. You take the whole last generation of sports, listening to them, even reading about them, watching the games, analyzing them, arguing about them, instant-replaying them, second-guessing them, and all you'll distill from them is quickness and momentum. - Frank Deford

Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time. - Huey Lewis

Professional sports have built themselves on the celebration of Americana, the ideas and values that best exemplify America. - Jason Whitlock

Occasionally, Americans in large numbers are moved by a vanquished athlete's grief. Larry Bird with a towel over his head in 1979 comes immediately to mind. But more often, sports fans do the opposite - they delight in the desolation of a defeated archrival. - Steve Rushin

Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service. - Dave Checketts

Sports occupies a central place in our society, and, as such, it is unavoidably cultural in nature and often engaged in societal issues. - John Skipper

Sports fans have an unbelievable ability at the end of the day, when the game comes on, to kind of put everything aside and watch the game. - John Skipper

Things that are unique and rare will cost a lot of money. Houses in East Hampton and Malibu will cost a lot of money because there just aren't that many of them. The value of sports has appreciated because it's the only thing that people have to watch live. - John Skipper

Brand matters. And ESPN is, by far, the most popular sports brand. People trust ESPN. - John Skipper

Sports is a mass product, and it's a non-replicable product. You can't knock it off. - John Skipper

The consumption of highlights on ESPN is greater than everybody else's combined. Fifty-six percent of all news and information consumed in sports is consumed on the ESPN platforms. - John Skipper

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body. - Bill Lee

I work out, I play sports, I go to concerts. - Angie Everhart

I kind of tried my hand at sports and school, and I wasn't very apt at either one of those things. - Anderson East

With 'Love & Basketball,' I played ball my whole life and did track at UCLA. So, I'm an athlete. And it was very important for me to get it right. I started with casting: As an athlete, there's nothing worse for me than watching a sports movie and the woman that they hire can't run or can't shoot. It sets women's sports back years. - Gina Prince-Bythewood

I had been on a vacation to Sharjah a couple of years ago and it was absolutely amazing. We stayed at this beautiful resort that itself was a place to behold as it was replete with water sports and other amenities. - Pranitha Subhash

When Colin Kaepernick refuses to stand for the anthem, that's both a sports story and a politics story. - S.E. Cupp

I was never a troublemaker, but I also was never a nerdy kid. I was never a cool kid or a sports kid. At lunchtimes, I never fit in with any cliques, so I'd end up just walking around the school by myself, listening to music. - Finn Jones

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. - Sheryl Swoopes

Professional sports are something they can't control. - Troy Vincent

If we look at Sky, the clientele and subscription, I think you see the consumer is tired of paying for a bundle. To pay £70 for 200 channels when maybe they just want to watch sports or football, and maybe some movies or TV series. - Andrea Radrizzani

I grew up thinking that I would become a fighter pilot and was fascinated by aircrafts as I had grown up around that. But my father encouraged me to not become an Air Force person, given the varied interests I had, be it books, movies, sports or fighter flying. - Kapil Sharma

I see similarities in the sports I played growing up in the sense of how I tackle a role when I get a job. A lot of effort goes in on an individual basis. There is a lot of time spent by yourself working on your craft and what you have to do. But, at the end of the day, you're there to serve the movie just like you would the rugby team. - Luke Bracey

There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports. - J. C. Watts

I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts. - Bobby Fischer

Football is one of the most popular sports in the country, and there are many reasons for this. You can take so much from football and apply it to life in general. Just some of those things are goal-setting, preparation, teamwork, perseverance and discipline. - Philip Rivers

I've been fortunate enough that in every form of motor sports in which I've competed, we've won. - Robby Gordon

Sports should just be taken as sports. - Sarfaraz Ahmed

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights. - Rube Goldberg

I tried sports, but I ended up being a paramedic. There was to be no rugby for me. Believe me, I did try, but I fell short. Rugby is tough, man. - Dereck Chisora

I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes. - Chris Moneymaker

I like my extreme sports. - A. J. Pritchard

I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers - not many industries do. - Anita Elberse

Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports. - Katarina Witt

I don't plan on writing biographies of great sports stars who are still playing ball. But I did write one on Jackie Robinson, who was playing ball in the 20th century. - David A. Adler

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father. - Deion Sanders

Sports is such a cyclical thing; it's often feast or famine. But what you try and do as an owner is build a winning organization. - Paul Allen

If you see in sports at a super high level, people get hurt or have injuries when there isn't that pleasure, the true pleasure of the sport, when they're tired or demoralized or they're not quite focused. - David Belle

After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted. - Huey Lewis

You never know what's going to happen with this crazy world of sports entertainment, so I would never rule out the fact that Rock wants to come home. - Roman Reigns

The self-image of many contemporary sportswriters seems to depend on maintaining that were it not for sports, athletes would be pumping gas, if they were not sticking up the gas station. - John Gregory Dunne

I think the XFL has a good chance. With the way sports gambling is coming to be and the people they have running that league, I think Vince does not want to fail again. - Pat McAfee

I'm excited to join my brother-in-law Ken Thomson every Tuesday night on SiriusXM to recap all of the awesome NFL action, and to find out what in the Wylde world of sports is going on. - Zakk Wylde

I don't watch TV series, but I watched 'Friday Night Lights' because I'm a sports head. - Rosie Perez

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along. - Jimmy Carter

It wasn't until 1999 when my idols Mia Hamm and Kristine Lilly took home the women's World Cup trophy at the Rose Bowl in front of 40 million TV viewers that I remember thinking how rare it was to see women play sports on TV. - Alex Morgan

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse. - Neil Peart

I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill. - Bradley Cooper

I'm actually a fan of all of the EA Sports titles like 'Tiger Woods,' 'Madden,' and I'm really looking forward to buying 'NBA Street V3.' - John Cena

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment. - Bret Easton Ellis

My dad is the reason I actually started watching wrestling. My dad was never big into sports; we were all big into sports as kids, and he'd go to our Little League games or whatever and not really know what was going on, because he didn't know about sports, but he knew about wrestling. - John Cena

When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem. - Greg Louganis

The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't. - Greg Louganis

Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving. - John Gregory Dunne

I grew up in a very urban, bohemian family where everyone was a hippie or a pacifist. It was artistically and intellectually stimulating, but they were definitely not into outdoor sports or activities. - Alexander Skarsgard

My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily. - Channing Tatum

Look, when I was working on a project at school, I had the urge to do that well. And if I'm fixing something up at home or whatever, making something, I want to do that well too. If I'm hanging a lamp and it doesn't work, nobody can talk to me for an hour, almost. And with football I have that urge and that will to win. With all sports. - Jaap Stam

I'm a big sports fan in general. - Luke Bryan

My parents always kept my brothers and I in sports to keep us out of trouble. - Nia Jax

All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room. - Pete Hamill

President Trump wouldn't stick to politics, so he got to jump into sports. So I feel very comfortable now, moving forward, jumping back and forth. Sports to politics, politics to sports. - Shannon Sharpe

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining. - Ice Cube

Sports is just something I have a knack to figure out how to play. - Mookie Betts

A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors. - Ilya Ilyin

The aura of soccer is very different from other sports. - Dave Checketts

I've got four brothers, so with them and all our friends we had these sports parties in the basement. We'd play basketball, mini-sticks, baseball in the backyard, football, whatever it was. We were busy 24/7. - Rob Gronkowski

I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas. - Alex Trebek

Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know. - Ice Cube

People enjoy watching sports at the weekend and watching motor racing and whatever sports, and Formula One is the number one global platform which is competing regularly - not like the Olympic Games or the World Cup - so the macro case was this is something that we should be part of because it's going to grow, and it does. - Toto Wolff

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier. - Dick Schaap

In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life. - Dan Gilbert

There's a sports saying, if you aren't playing offense, you're playing defense, so if you are coming back for a sequel not be better but you have to aim higher and bring something else back in to the mix. - Ol Parker

I am from Jammu, but I studied in Chandigarh in sports quota. - Mukesh Rishi

My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating. - Alan King

I didn't play any extreme sports growing up. I never surfed, and I grew up in Santa Cruz. I was very good at doing what I was told, taking direction, and staying middle of the road. I mean, they called me 'grandma' in college. - Julia Hartz

My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me. - Arthur Blank

To catch a wave, to stand up - it was just life-changing. There was nothing that even came close. I quit playing all other sports - by the time I was eleven, they were toast. - Rob Machado

In professional sports, things can change quickly. You keep your balance. You keep your perspective, and things will work out. - Clyde Drexler

I wanted to be a sports broadcaster like Stephen A. Smith. - Polo G

I remember, when I was a little kid, I was good at sports, and I could jump off the high board. And then puberty hit, and suddenly I was looking to boys for direction. I remember that as a great loss. - Francine Prose

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected. - Martina Navratilova

The Olympics had never really been on my agenda. I had been a huge sports fan growing up, But it never really occurred to me that I would have a chance to participate. - Tim Henman

When I was 13, tennis became more of my life. It's when I gave up skiing, I gave up winter sports. I still played varsity basketball my freshman year of high school - basketball was the last sport I gave up for my tennis. - Pam Shriver

Living in Baltimore at age 11, I was still not single-focused on tennis. I still played other sports. It was becoming a bigger part of my life, but it was still mainly my summer hobby. - Pam Shriver

People need to know that they can make a living. We are losing a lot of the best athletes to other sports at the age of seven or eight, which is exactly the time when you want to get a racket into their hand. - Tim Henman

Competing in show jumping is a school of life. And it's one of the few Olympic sports where men and women are equal. - Charlotte Casiraghi

When I became more aware and educated on the state of youth sports and the inability for so many who want to participate, I knew I wanted to be involved. - Jesse Palmer

In elementary school, I didn't even play sports, I was just straight up on the juggling team. I started out with the floating scarves. Then I went to tennis balls and all that. Then by like the fourth grade I was doing the Chinese yo-yo. And I was good, man. I was like a master Chinese yo-yo person. I was top five Dead or Alive in South Carolina. - A. J. Green

I think it's good for sports cars to be united, to be just one. I think it's good for the fans. When you have two different series, fans don't know which way to go, when you only have one I think it's good for the sport. - Juan Pablo Montoya

Let's say something like Olympics is happening, I will definitely watch because that is something which is live after so many months. I think sports will definitely get people to watch. - Mithali Raj

Every moment I spend in Philly, it's amazing. The city respects us, respects sports, respects hard work. - Boban Marjanovic

The goal for the Laureus Sport For Good Foundation is to give kids an opportunity to be involved in sports and hopefully learn some lessons along the way. We want to put them in a safe environment, help them if they need it and maybe they will get a scholarship to a school because of the skills that they learn. Sport is just a starting point. - Martina Navratilova

I think it's huge, especially in team sports, for players to be able to rely on each other and to really trust in each other. - Alex Morgan

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. - Steven Chu

Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us. - Omar Epps

I'm not super into sports. - Jack Antonoff

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