#ports

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

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#behavior #biological #consequences #crime #differences

I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other. ↗

— Tim Ryan

#care #each #enough #experienced #group

We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development. ↗

— Ali A. Saleh

#democratic #democratic process #developing #development #economic

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#because #carrier #could #curve #hit

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#both #boxing #cases #characters #decline