In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so.

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

Being champion is all well and good but you cant eat a crown.

No matter what accomplishments you achieve somebody helps you.

Winning once can be a fluke; winning twice proves you are the best.

If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

Professional sports are something they can't control.

I liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports.

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.

Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.

I wanted to use sports for social change.

Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.

I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.

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.

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

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.

Theatre sports is the best improv training period.

I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually.

I Worked in the family auto body shop, lifted weights, and rode a few Victory Sports Indoors.

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 out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.

You know, we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if its good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door.

I love all sports.

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.

As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.

Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.

Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.

I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.

I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

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.

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded.

It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.