I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.
I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.
The idea of growing up in the South and being a man is an interesting thing; there's a lot masculinity involved, with hunting, fishing, and playing sports that rural people take pride in, but at the same time, I grew up really not wanting to hate anybody.
When I did play team sports, I was into soccer and hockey. I loved hockey. And then rock climbing became the thing that got me out of Iowa, and I traveled the world for rock climbing. I really loved the, I guess you would say, dirtbag lifestyle of not eating much and traveling the world and slipping into different cultures and just observing.
I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.
What has truly impeded ESPN from overcoming its financial mistakes and inability to adapt to technological advances? The decadelong culture war ESPN lost to Deadspin, a snarky, politically progressive sports blog launched by Gawker's Nick Denton in 2005.
Atlanta is Exhibit A in my belief that the marriage between hip-hop and sports is a failure.
I had played sports all my life, and I thought that was going to be the way. But I saw where the potential in football was going to end. When it comes to decision-making, I just follow my gut at the end of the day. And if I don't, I get in trouble. I wanted to become a filmmaker.
You've got athletes who are politicians, venture capitalists, musicians, rappers, etcetera. It's becoming more of a popular thing to have other interests outside of basketball, and I think that's normal. Just like when people work day jobs, they have interest in sports, they do investments, they do all these other types of things.
Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.
Here's my take: People watch sports to get away from day-to-day stresses, work, illness, financial worries. We don't need to be reminded of political divisions.
When I create a sports costume, I remember that it must not look - how do you say? - 'bedraggled.'
I'd like to run a professional football team. I'd love to run the USTA, be the sports editor of the 'New York Times.'
For some reason, when Colin Kaepernick took a knee, people remained undecided about the side of history that he was on - which was clearly short-sighted on their part, because he was always right. Because there was no public momentum or approval behind what he did, people found it easier to say things like 'stick to sports.'
Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.
I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.
You see a lot of people in sports who need to be humbled first to become who they are.
Professional sports is a monster. It's not even real life. It's one of the few things in life, the economy goes bad, you still get your money.
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.
Let's face it: in advertising, you are paid more, but you die younger. It's not very forgiving. Like sports stars, you're in it during your better years, and then you're out looking for work.
We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to.
Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.
I watch sports and cable news. I'm a political junkie, so that's my interest.
To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.
I remember being, like, 5 years old, and my dad took me to a Yankees-Mets game. My dad had me on his shoulders and taught me one of the most important lessons about sports. He said, 'Jesse, just remember one thing, the Mets suck.'
I didn't really watch 'Dallas' growing up, as I was a bit young and into other things, like sports.
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.
Wrestling is ballet with violence.
I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.
I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
Trump survives by Corum's Law. This is a famous, well-tested theory and is named after Bill Corum, who once wrote sports for the Hearst papers when they were in New York.
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
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.
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
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.
Thank you... fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports.
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
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 think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports.
Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.
These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.
Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.
For me the more important thing is fighting. You know, training, fighting. The sports side. I didn't choose my media life.
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 love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.
There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.
We all have limitations. I don't have the right genes to be an Olympic weightlifter. I don't have the right genetics to be an Olympic sprinter. Or gymnast. Sure, if I trained my whole life, perhaps I could have become fairly decent in those sports.
I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.