#ports

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. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#golf #got #i #into #league

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#fortune #say #sports #successful #surveys

If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it. ↗

— Larry King

#because #did #i #loved #me

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

We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears. ↗

— Calvin Klein

#conservative #doing #everyone #fashion #i

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. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#coaches #columnist #dad #football #general

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#call #destroys #god #him #man

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. ↗

— Barry Switzer

#base #born #go #hit #life

When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero. ↗

— Mike Royko

#hero #i #jordan #michael #michael jordan

I'm in the perfect position. It's a sports position and a political position where I can help better the lives of athletes around the world. ↗