I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.
— Ricky Williams
So if you want great sports, Michigan's the place to be.
— Rick Snyder
You can't explain the feeling of singing hit songs to an audience - it's like being a genuine sports star at the peak of their powers.
— Rick Astley
I don't see the arts as competitive at all. It was a better angel of my nature. Sports is zero-sum: winner, loser, demonstrable.
— Richard Linklater
It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest.
— Richard Hammond
I went to every sports contest for my kids. I turned off my cell phone at 8 P.M. I did have to travel relentlessly and had some nights at black tie events. But when I was home, I was home.
— Richard Edelman
Bringing more large sporting events to Africa would help the continent develop sports policies and at the same time optimize its peoples' chances of achieving competitive success.
— Richard Attias
I have some guests who get angry when they don't get to talk about sports and have to talk about the project they are promoting.
— Rich Eisen
There are hundreds of millions of people on dating apps every day, but apparently, no such apps cater solely to sports fans.
We all idolize sports figures, and we see them fall from grace. You just truly never know anybody anymore.
Traveling around, it's difficult to follow much TV. Mainly I'm somebody who watches sports.
— Retief Goosen
I don't know much about sports.
— Rene Russo
For sports in general, it's good to have a person in the White House who's physically fit, who loves sports, but also understands and knows how to run a country.
— Reggie Miller
Fans don't boo nobodies.
— Reggie Jackson
I never did any sports at school. It wasn't until I moved to America, to New York, when I was about 20 that I actually thought that if I wanted to be an actress I might have to start working out.
— Rebecca Mader
I have to say that sports is what kept me out of trouble. No matter the circumstances, my mom kept us playing sports. She worked hard to provide for us and even harder to make sure we always stayed active. Whether it was football or basketball, we were playing one sport or another year-round.
— Rashard Lewis
I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took off for me. It seemed to be the sport I had an affinity for; I liked the individual, combative nature. There's something special about that. It took me all the places I wanted to go.
— Randy Couture
Obviously, signing on with Puma right when I turned pro, it's been a great fit for me to show off my colorful lifestyle as far as where I grew up and how I grew up, growing up on a public driving range and growing up around action sports my whole life. Not exactly the normal road that guys take to get to the PGA Tour.
— Rickie Fowler
But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.
I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
— Richard M. Nixon
We don't have sports tickets, we don't have corporate jets. We don't have stadiums named after us.
— Richard Kinder
If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.
— Richard Ford
Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.
— Richard Dawkins
Global sports tournaments have a range of benefits that go far beyond the games themselves. They can transform the image of a country or a region. They bring people together and reveal new possibilities to a nation's youth.
The NFL is part of the pop culture landscape, so sports fans don't bat an eye when you stop in the middle of a piece to talk about a new movie.
Sports is the ultimate escape, the ultimate in reality programming. It's true drama. You really don't know what's going to happen.
I am excited to join Combate Americas on NBC UNIVERSO, and look forward to building this incredible MMA sports brand and supporting the extremely talented athletes on its growing roster.
— Rey Mysterio
I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.
I started my cooking 'career' aged 15, almost 20 years ago. At the time it was quite a shock suddenly working 75 to 80 hours a week, without time to play football or other sports.
— Rene Redzepi
In professional sports, you live in the moment, and that's what I love about it.
I'm a sports fan. I'm not just an athlete who plays football.
— Reggie Bush
There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.
— Rebecca Lobo
In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
— Randy Lerner
Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.
— Randy Castillo
When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.
— Rick Yune
Football is only once a week. NASCAR is once a week. Those sports are insanely popular. Horse racing is oversaturated. Unless tracks cut back to three days a week of full fields, a lot of people will really hurt down the road. Horse racing, to survive, has to go to that. Let's face it: Churchill Downs only does well on Derby Week.
— Rick Pitino
You don't really grow up until you quit playing sports.
I have just come from a couple of raids, where we had a very lively time, and some of them had to pull their guns. I found it necessary to punch a few sports myself.
— Richard Harding Davis
Money is flowing out of traditional advertising into experiential, social, and sports.
As a kid, I was a paperboy, and the walls of the place where we picked up our papers were plastered with pictures of former paperboys - some sports figures, some presidents, some military officers.
— Richard Cohen
Being a huge football fan, the chance to work for the NFL and do a show combining sports and entertainment is truly a dream come true.
I am definitely not the first person with a sports program to have a Hollywood star come on, but I don't know of any that does it as a staple of the program, which is something we are trying to do.
Sports is part of the pop culture landscape in this country, just like music and television and movies.
That's really what drew me into wrestling. To see my own uncle put on the mask every Friday to go into the ring, and me putting on his masks to play wrestle with him. It was a whole different world when it came down to sports.
I'm not that clued up on the American sports yet, really.
The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.
— Rei Kawakubo
I work for ABC television; I have my own syndicated TV series. I've been on the cover of 'Time Magazine' and on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated' five times.
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
— Red Auerbach
It's important for parents to put kids in positions where they can succeed and to teach competition because competition exists not only in sports.
— Ray Allen
Televisa is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, and the steps we have taken, which extend the tenure of our exclusive access to Televisa's premium Spanish-language telenovelas, sports, sitcoms, reality series, news programs and feature films, put Univision in a stronger competitive position.
— Randy Falco
