When I'm at home, I do get recognised more often, and I don't need to be in sports clothes to be recognised, which is different.
— Johanna Konta
When I used to play sports, I'd be the one cheering the team on, 'Come on, we can beat these guys!' That's just in me.
— Joel Osteen
I knew I was good at sports, and I knew I loved acting and performing, so I really dove into that, and school always became secondary.
— Joel McHale
Pittsburgh felt like the perfect size of a city to me. There's enough to do, but it's not like living in a circus. I also really loved how sports-enthusiastic Pittsburgh people are: how proud of their sports they are.
— Joel Edgerton
Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.
— Joe Rogan
That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity.
— Joe Nichols
Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front.
— Joe Namath
In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.
— Joe Montana
I remember when I was growing up, I always wore glasses and so if I was on-stage or just being able to move around playing sports, I was never really able to because I had glasses holding me back. Wearing contacts has just been very helpful.
— Joe Jonas
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
— Joe Garagiola
I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.
— Joe Dante
We all have limitations. I don't have the right genes to be an Olympic weightlifter. I don't have the right genetics to be an Olympic sprinter. Or gymnast. Sure, if I trained my whole life, perhaps I could have become fairly decent in those sports.
— Jocko Willink
There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.
— Joaquin Phoenix
Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.
— Joan Cusack
New York is always claiming East, and Los Angeles is always claiming West. It's in everything: acting, hip-hop, sports. But I love it. That rivalry makes you work harder.
— Jo Koy
WWE is the epitome of Sports Entertainment; it gets no bigger than this. So, whether you are on 'Raw' or on 'SmackDown,' the level of talent that we have on both sides is second to none.
— Jinder Mahal
I was actually fairly athletic and coordinated, but I never played any organized sports.
— Jimmy O. Yang
I play sports - like, I play a little bit of tennis, swimming, like a normal kid. I watch movies.
— Joey Alexander
I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.
I always excelled in sports, so I knew I had advantages there. That really gave me, like, confidence and self-esteem.
I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury.
— Joe Taslim
Being wrong on facts, that's something you have a real responsibility to correct. But being wrong in the fun sports way is part of the interplay.
— Joe Posnanski
I am a sports fanatic and being able to perform at halftime for the fans of the Steelers and the Jets is such a thrill for me.
I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.
Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.
— Joe Manganiello
It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.
— Joe Gibbs
One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.
Amateur boxing is one of the safest sports around.
— Joe Calzaghe
We always try to reinterpret sport in an innovative, fashionable way, and when we do fashion, we're always trying to bring our sports heritage into the fashion world.
— Jochen Zeitz
For me the more important thing is fighting. You know, training, fighting. The sports side. I didn't choose my media life.
— Joanna Jedrzejczyk
You look at the sports pages and you'd often be forgiven for thinking women didn't do sport.
— Jo Swinson
One of my goals is definitely to motivate the youth towards sports. Whether it's arts or academics, I just want to let them know that anything is possible. To think that I grew up as a WWE fan and now I'm a WWE champion proves that through hard work anything really is possible.
I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.
— Jimmy Wales
I think as far as any kind of pressure on a football team or on an individual in professional sports really depends not only on that individual but the leadership they have on the team and the leadership they have on the coaching staff. A lot of times, they can divert some of those pressures off of the individual and off of the team.
— Jimmy Johnson
I never really was that passionate about playing sports. But when I was at this Mt. Herman school, I did have the ability to throw the frisbee. So when this sport evolved, it was fun because I was good at it.
— Joel Silver
E! always wanted me to keep it to entertainment news or entertainment and no sports or anything like that, and don't get too weird.
E! didn't like it when we'd make fun of clips from ESPN - they'd be like, 'That's sports! That's not our audience!'
I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.
Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how you respond to that tension.
Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.
I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.
I really liked sports and athletic stuff, but I was a total nerd.
— Joe Keery
I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
— Joe E. Lewis
Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
— Joe Adcock
We decided that sports, lifestyle and fashion were three elements that could be mixed together to a very unique formula. That's what we did: make Puma a very sports-fashion brand when, at the times, everybody talked about sports and sports performance and functionality. We said, 'Well, it's about more.'
I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.
— Joan Jett
In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.
— Jo Nesbo
I was really into sports, playing track and field, amateur wrestling, volleyball, and soccer. I was a very active kid and teenager.
Comedy and drama are like two different sports; they both require athleticism but they're different.
