I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.

In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

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.

It's become another dimension to who I am. I don't think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I'm at a different place in my life.

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.

Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.

It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player.

I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them.

We want to encourage the young ones to learn and get some confidence in sports. It's fun and keeps you active and moving.

My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.

My favorite sports movies, I like 'Remember the Titans' and 'Hoosiers' Jimmy Chitwood, from the corner.

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.

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

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.

Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.

There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we're going through. This is all stuff that you can say you're going to make a difference, but I'm putting it into action.

When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.

No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.

I never thought I'd make the pages of 'Sports Illustrated', because I've always been skinny.