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Sports

I think Bob Costas is terrific. Hes so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports. – Jim McKay

Im glad youre doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. Were so much prettier than all the other women in sports. – Martina Hingis

Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Womens Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again. – Brandi Chastain

In sports, you simply arent 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. – Althea Gibson

I played professional level sports. When youre playing for money, its a whole other level. – Kurt Russell

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I cant put my finger on it, but in a mans world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man. – Kurt Russell

I hate the cliche of just have fun, but what Ive seen in todays sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids. – Hope Solo

Well, if I hadnt have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports. – Joe Manganiello

I dont think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports. – Gregg Easterbrook

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, its fundamentally a form of entertainment. – Gregg Easterbrook

Im a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain. – Ben Hecht

We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of womens sports, but we didnt ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country. – Lorrie Fair

Im not that clued up on the American sports yet, really. – Retief Goosen

Traveling around, its difficult to follow much TV. Mainly Im somebody who watches sports. – Retief Goosen

Its kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases its for the lack of a suitable hero. – Dick Schaap

We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we cant just depend on the fact that it is a great game. – John McEnroe

I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the Daily Pennsylvanian and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page. – H. G. Bissinger

I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasnt very good, so my interests lay elsewhere. – Joe Dante

In fact, theres a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted. – Chad Harbach

I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. Its a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder. – Chad Harbach