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Sports

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

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant. – Bob Feller

As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports. – John Hodgman

The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports. – Mark Hoppus

I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things. – Rachel Stevens

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. – Tim McGraw

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game. – Branch Rickey

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world. – Esther Williams

The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages. – Esther Williams

Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues. – Esther Williams

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism. – Jenna Bush

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying. – Jason Bateman

For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America. – Elle Macpherson

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area. – Jerry B. Jenkins

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports. – Willie Mays

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan. – Alastair Campbell

I remember when I was growing up, I always wore glasses and so if I was on-stage or just being able to move around playing sports, I was never really able to because I had glasses holding me back. Wearing contacts has just been very helpful. – Joe Jonas

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

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic. – Ivan Lendl

My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob. – Michael Ian Black