At 13, I concentrated on my school work and playing sports, which, to this day, is something I still believe is very, very important.
— Luol Deng
I'm a big sports fan in general.
— Luke Bryan
The world of extreme sports is also one of big business. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors.
— Lucy Walker
We're extremely excited about the assets that Yahoo has in the areas of Sports and Finance and Email and News. You match those up with AOL, and we've just made an exponential leap in capabilities here.
— Lowell McAdam
Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.
— Louis C. K.
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.
— Lou Holtz
Outside the Olympics, there are massive discrepancies within all sports. But the positive side for me is that the Olympics are the biggest platform there is, and there's total equality across all sports.
— Lizzie Armitstead
On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.
— Lisa Guerrero
There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail' were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading 'The Times' editorial pages and the 'Daily Mail' sports pages.
— Lionel Barber
The thing about sports movies is, they can't help but feel epic - putting music to images, etc.
— Lindsey Shaw
I've always loved being active, and I used to do sports - basketball, soccer, volleyball - growing up.
— Lily Collins
What I mean by being real is just when you are doing dance celebrations, sports celebrations, like the cooking dance or anything like that. When you're an artist, you want to always try your best to do the homework and see where it originated from.
— Lil B
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
— Lewis H. Lapham
Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.
— Lesley Visser
You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.
— Leigh Steinberg
But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.
— LeBron James
At school I hated swimming and felt bigger and more self-conscious than all the other girls - and I would go to summer sports camps to desperately try to change my shape so that it couldn’t be one of the taunts aimed at me by bullies.
— Layla Moran
I believe God created sports for a good reason. It's recreation. It's something that we enjoy. It teaches us a lot as well... I believe God is a sports fan.
— Luke Scott
Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.
Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.
— Lucy Powell
We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.
— Louise Slaughter
The long-term value of amplifying the intelligence of people is a lot more important than betting on sports.
— Louis B. Rosenberg
We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country.
— Lorrie Fair
When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren't glued to computers because they didn't exist, so being active was all we knew.
— Lisa Loeb
In the morning, I reach for the sports page.
Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.
— Lindsey Vonn
In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.
— Linda Ronstadt
I'm just not no kid... I was always consistent with everything: school, sports, music, everything. I made sure. That's how I am.
— Lil Skies
One thing I get from competitive sports is that I am fiercely ambitious.
— Lexi Alexander
Walmart markets its gun department as 'sports and outdoors,' but let us get one thing straight: They are not just selling hunting rifles.
— Letitia James
I think the fun of following the movie box office and stocks is very similar to the fun of sports - all three combine passion and unpredictability.
— Leonard Mlodinow
I am a fan of winter sports.
— Lee Min-ho
When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.
The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it's going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they're going to be.
— Lawrence Schiller
I'm not knocking the other sports; I love other sports. There's a competitive and a technical level of them that I won't understand, probably, to a certain extent, but I've done a lot of other sports competing on college teams, and there's just nothing like fighting.
— Luke Rockhold
I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.
When I'm playing football, it's what I know; it's what I'm good at. The spotlight is not just on you: you're with 10 of your team-mates. I could have done other sports, like tennis and athletics, but I like being part of a team where it's not just about you; it's about everybody.
— Lucy Bronze
That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.
— Louis Zamperini
At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of 'Sports Illustrated.' I'm on the cover with the blurb, 'Can Lou Do It?' I'd just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week's coverage.
At school, I would read the City pages before I read the sports pages.
— Lloyd Dorfman
Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.
— Lisa Leslie
I've always been around dudes and sports.
It's so important for kids to get involved with sports in general at a young age.
It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.
— Lin Dan
I feel like the Philadelphia sports teams are really good at having my back.
— Lil Dicky
Every successful sports season I had included detailed daily itineraries. We received one in the morning and one before practice, and they set us up to win.
— Lewis Howes
My schedule has slowed a little. I've cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago.
I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them.
— Leighton Meester
But it's true, I was a sports organiser at Pontins - one of a series of terrible jobs I had before I started doing comedy full time.
— Lee Mack
I know, in India, specially in Bollywood and the sports fraternity, there is a lot of negative media attention on prominent public figures.
— Leander Paes
