I overcame size with mechanics.
— Edwin Moses
Rio will have to look after the legacy of infrastructure. But it's unclear who will run the sports centres after the Olympics.
— Eduardo Paes
Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.
— Eddie Rickenbacker
I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
— Ed Speleers
I think sports is good for goal setting, and I think it teaches you some important values.
— Ed McCaffrey
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
— Earl Warren
I just love sports.
— E-40
All I know is professional wrestling and sports entertainment. This is all I know, and I wanted to give it everything that I had.
— Drew McIntyre
International soccer has been a big part of my love for the sport. I love the Men's National Team. I can say that they're my favorite sports team.
— Drew Carey
Playing in New England and the Boston area, the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well, they'll let you know so I know it's not something that they take lightly.
— Drew Bledsoe
Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean's statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players.
— Douglas Rushkoff
I turned six in 1977. Youth athletics then was nothing like this, and I wondered how things changed so much. I started looking at our societal emphasis on sports, using the most tangible metric by which we measure emphasis: money.
— Douglas Brunt
Instincts are learned on the football field through experience. It's vital in sports because things happen so rapidly that you have to rely on your instincts at times to make quick decisions.
— Doug Baldwin
In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.
— Don Yaeger
In Romania, of course, gymnastics is among the most popular sports, and my parents had a dream of escaping the Ceausescu regime and giving their child a better life. So they came to the United States and put me in gymnastics.
— Dominique Moceanu
Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.
— Djimon Hounsou
I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.
— Dirk Nowitzki
I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large.
Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense.
— Edgar Ramirez
Dad always enjoyed sports, and he decided to join a Guadalajara gym to learn how to box. What he didn't realize was that they didn't teach boxing at that particular gym - they taught 'lucha libre.'
— Eddie Guerrero
I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.
— Ed Skrein
Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
— Ed Greenwood
I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.
— Earl Monroe
When I was growing up, I wasn't particularly great at anything. I was in my own world, and my teachers felt I'd never reach my potential. Even in sports, I'd only play team games because I felt I was not good enough to outshine anyone.
— Dulquer Salmaan
ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.
— Drew Curtis
But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.
I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.
— Dr. Dre
To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot.
— Douglas Coupland
I am huge water sports fan. I love to jet ski, speedboat, water ski. So I love to get away to somewhere sunny and just get on the water and have some fun with some friends.
— Douglas Booth
In sports, big names and celebrities drive events, and that's what people gravitate to.
— Donovan Bailey
As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year's Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout the world offered predictions on who would win medals in the major sports. Not a single publication gave the American men's hockey team a chance against the world powers.
I'm always trying to make myself a better sports entertainer.
— Dolph Ziggler
I was a heavy kid, even though I was into sports and very active.
— DJ Premier
I definitely want to fight Breazeale. It doesn't need to be PBC; it can be Matchroom and Sky Sports. If he wants to fight, we can fight. It's an easy fight to make. Let's make it.
— Dillian Whyte
My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.
It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
— Eddie Vedder
I think sports is a quest to find out what really is - not what perceptions are.
— Eddie Alvarez
I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.
— Ed O'Neill
And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.
— Ed Bradley
Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
I have always been a huge sports fan, but more of the pedestrian and 'homer' sort.
— Duff McKagan
Being a celebrity, you always get really good seats to sporting events, but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports.
Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
— Douglas William Jerrold
I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.
Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
— Doug Collins
I think that every single person should play sports.
In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions.
When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everything's OK. And then I go and make decisions, however painful they may be.
— Dmitry Medvedev
I was always into sports, and as a sportsperson, you need to be fit to survive and play from start to finish.
— Disha Patani
