"Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time."
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"You've got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you're involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life."
"Football is a team sport, and there is no one individual who is bigger than the next person."
"I ain't never had much fun. I ain't never been two inches away from a football. Here guys go fishing on the day of the game, hunting, golfing, and all I want to do is be alone, studying how not to lose."
"Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right"
"A good life is a collection of happy memories."
"Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports."
"Sooner or later we all quote our mothers."
"It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional."
"Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!"
"Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider."
"I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty."
"Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special."
"There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game."
"You've got to be ready for the fastball."
"Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day."
"The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell."
"I don't think you could have a 7 with a manual. But I can't see having a BMW sports sedan without a manual."
"I am a sore loser. I've always been like that ever s'nce I started playin' sports and just life in general. I hate to lose and I play to win."
"Golf is one of the few sports where a white man can dress like a black pimp and not look bad."