#sports

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

If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people. ↗

— William Petersen

#ago #ball player #been #career #could

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

Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#citizenship #efforts #fields #fight #full

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. ↗

— Will Rogers

#been #depressed #enough #everything #forget

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#i #into #medicine #sailing #sort

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing. ↗

— Bruce Dern

#betting #event #important #important thing #management

The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie. ↗

— George Deukmejian

#difference #golf #government #improve #lie

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out. ↗

— LeBron James

#away #being #carried #gang #me

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