#sport

The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team. ↗

— Cal Thomas

#another #between #clubs #compete #congress

A supermodel needed to be able to be on 'Sports Illustrated,' to be able to walk runways, to be able to do beauty ads, to be on covers. And the girls now can no longer be on covers and be in the ads because your actresses have taken over all the jobs. I don't know what happened, but we want our jobs back. ↗

— Kim Alexis

#ads #back #beauty #because #covers

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. ↗

— Willie Mays

#called #clock #enjoy #field #game

Fans don't boo nobodies. ↗

— Reggie Jackson

#boo #fans

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. ↗

— January Jones

#dad #grades #gym #health #i

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. ↗

— Marion Jones

#champion #child #i #involved #knew

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#character #feels #know #life #like

Sports are a microcosm of society. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#microcosm #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