#ports

Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports. ↗

— Michael Rapaport

#being #best #greatest #hip-hop #i

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

#ethnic #game #maintain #must #national

We stand sideways. We sleep on floors in cramped resort hotel rooms. We get up early and go to sleep late. We've been mocked. We are relentless. We dream it, we make it, we break it, we fix it. We create. We destroy. We wreck ourselves day in and day out and yet we stomp that one trick or find that one line that keeps us coming back. We progress. We Snowboard. ↗

— burton snowboards

#dreams

They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time. ↗

— Oscar Robertson

#been #college #game #had #high

There is so much hypocrisy in sports. ↗

— Dennis Rodman

#much #sports

I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#commentator #dreamed #i #imagination #never

Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#combat #compete #few #highest #highest levels

To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom. ↗

— James E. Rogers

#any #apparent #chill #extent #freedom

Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university. ↗

— James E. Rogers

#campus #college #contributing #develop #discount

We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#extensive #highways #locks #ports #system