I got put into leadership roles very early in life from fifth grade, sixth grade. I always ended up being the quarterback or the leader of the sports teams, and it's kind of benefiting me now.
— Tony Dungy
If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.
— Tommy Bolt
I learned early in sports that to be effective - for a player to play the best he can play - is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.
— Tom Landry
I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns.
— Tom Hicks
We hope that the Commonwealth Sports movement is playing a meaningful role in the wider global conversation around tolerance, empowerment, and legal recognition for all.
— Tom Daley
I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what it's like to really adore something.
— Todd Lowe
The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that. The Olympics are the most important race. They're each four years, and everybody wants to show their best performance.
— Tina Maze
It's hard to create new friendships outside sports.
— Tim Tebow
But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.
— Tim McGraw
I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.
— Tim Ferriss
I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.
— Tiki Barber
My becoming an actor wasn't planned. My interest always lied in sports such as football, martial arts, gymnastics and dance.
— Tiger Shroff
Unlike most sports playing fields, a boxing ring is a temporary structure.
— Thomas Hauser
The single most important thing that sports fans want is competition building to a meaningful championship.
Sports was my entire life as long as I can remember.
— Theo Rossi
Haryana is one state that loves combat sports. In fact, majority of the kids who learn wrestling from me are from Haryana.
— The Great Khali
We come from a rich history of amazing sports and athletes here in Canada and there's been a long legacy before us that helped pave the way. And that's why I grew up believing I could go to the Olympics and stand on the podium one day.
— Tessa Virtue
My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.
— Tony Dorsett
If I was invincible, maybe I would take up some extreme sports.
— Tom Welling
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
I love both sports, but the deciding factor was, being a left-handed pitcher, I had a huge advantage in baseball because of that, and I didn't have that type of advantage in hockey.
— Tom Glavine
ABC wouldn't be a player in the news major leagues until the 1970s, when Roone Arledge brought to ABC News the energy and programming approach he had applied to ABC Sports.
— Tom Brokaw
I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.
— Todd English
The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that.
I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other.
— Tim Ryan
I'm honored and excited to be chosen to lead MLSE, a world-class sports and entertainment organization with the major league teams, premier facilities and employee team that rank with the very best across North America and internationally.
— Tim Leiweke
As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.
— Tim Conway
Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
— Tiger Woods
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
— Thorstein Veblen
As a general rule, Las Vegas sports books take boxing bets only on major fights.The same is true of most Internet gaming sites. Within that framework, not only does boxing allow participants to bet on their own bouts, it sometimes encourages them to do so.
The heavyweight championship of the world was the most coveted title in sports. Everyone knew who the heavyweight champion was. And not only when it was Muhammad Ali or Rocky Marciano: they knew when it was Ingemar Johansson.
It's a natural push and pull that exists in any sports organization. When you are in a big market and then you win, and you're up against the Yankees, and ratings are what they are and attendance is what it is, no one wants to go backwards; as a business, you don't want to go backwards.
— Theo Epstein
The wrestling is real, all the injuries are real, so much so that in no other sports, whether soccer or cricket or hockey, players get so many injuries as in WWE.
My first match was against Sputnik Monroe at the Amarillo Sports Arena. It was scheduled for only ten minutes. Sputnik got me down and was on top of me for the first eight minutes. My father came running down to the ring and yelled for me to get up. I don't know how I got up but I did. I was a lot more scared of my father than I was Sputnik.
— Terry Funk
Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
— Tommy Lasorda
Involvement in my kids' sports teams is something I have made time for over the years. I've also been able to coach all three of them in baseball and basketball, something that has strengthened our bonds and given me indescribable joy. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
— Tom Perez
Music and television are turning into the equivalent of gymnastics and tennis: sports built entirely around the identification and training of prodigies.
— Tom Junod
I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I'm quite good at individual sports, but I was not good at team sports, so I wasn't good at baseball and football.
— Tom Ford
In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great.
— Tom Brady
I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.
— Todd Barry
I want to support kids that not a lot of people believe in. Give them an opportunity to do good in school, play sports and get scholarships.
I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.
— Tim Robbins
I grew up a Michael Jordan fan; that was my first idol. But my true sports idol was Deion Sanders: he was the person I always wanted to be. I wanted to play two sports professionally, which would never happen, but to me, that was every kid's dream.
— Tim Howard
I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.
— Tim Burton
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
I'm kind of a sports guy.
— Thomas Middleditch
Most major sports benefit from the fact that betting by the general public fuels fan interest and boosts television ratings. The Super Bowl and 'March Madness' are prime examples. But sports other than boxing draw a clear line where betting by participants is concerned.
Sometimes in football you have to score goals.
— Thierry Henry
When I was writing or competing in individual sports, it felt unfulfilling and lonely. When I was able to find a group of people I believed in and liked, that all worked in pursuit of a common goal, it felt incredibly rewarding.
There is lots of enthusiasm among youth of Haryana about sports. They have potential in sports.
