"A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind."
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"As a passionate sports fan, as well as an athlete, I am excited to be a part of CBS Sports Network's historic sports-focused program hosted entirely by women, especially at a time when the influence of women in sports has evolved to where it is today."
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"Boxing is the only sport where you have the audience coming right up to you and saying, "You Stink." And you got to deal with that. It's like being in front of the lions."
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"Sport for me is about inspiring kids. Here's the rules, here's the play area, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. This is all about teaching kids how to approach life. If we're not playing sport to benefit kids, I'm not really sure why we play sport."
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"The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played."
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"I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college"
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"I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers"
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"No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. Hes the best Ive ever seen."
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"The intelligent fights only when he must and never for sport."
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"Don't wait to be a great man; be a great boy!"
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"There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports."
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"My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money."
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"I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings."
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"Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life."
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"In my time at St. Mary's College, drifting out of sports because it was something that began to feel really finite. And I could see that I didn't have the passion to sustain a career in sports."
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"I got into [acting] so late because of sports. And then when I was in grad school, I sort of got lulled into basically forgetting I was black, in - meaning that everyone you play at a conservatory, 95 percent of the characters are non-black."
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"It was really a focus on how to in some ways keep moving in this direction towards something that allowed me to express myself in a way that sports didn't."
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"When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire."
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"Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know."
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"A lot of times people would offer me movies and, because I'm a car freak, I'd look in a magazine and say, 'How much is this car? If you give me this car I'll show up and do the movie' I call 'em 'sports car flicks'."
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