#ports

Sports are a microcosm of society. ↗

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#beginning #finally #get #infancy #passage

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#acceptable #active #athletes #females #had

I later discovered that in order to be a good athlete one must care intensely what is happening with a ball, even if one doesn't have possession of it. This was ultimately my failure: my inability to work up a passion for the location of balls. ↗

— Haven Kimmel

#sports #funny

They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#all americans #american #because #being #believed

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#anything #dream #farther #get #limit

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#anything #historic #i #impossible #nothing

I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself. ↗

— Ferdinand Porsche

#car #dreams #find #i #myself

Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times. ↗