I haven't read a word of Proust. And I listen obsessively to sports radio.
— David Grann
We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they can't do. Like stay home one week and play the next week.
— David Duval
I'm a sports guy. Football, God, I flip out.
— David Boreanaz
I don't plan on writing biographies of great sports stars who are still playing ball. But I did write one on Jackie Robinson, who was playing ball in the 20th century.
— David A. Adler
We don't take ourselves very seriously and view working at Barstool Sports as a way to avoid becoming slaves to cubicle life.
— Dave Portnoy
Everything the NFL touches that maybe we should be involved in... we always get the message the NFL frowns upon working with Barstool Sports.
The aura of soccer is very different from other sports.
— Dave Checketts
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
— Dave Barry
Our country's growing obsession with organized sports isn't just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to gyms and fields, fewer kids are playing in our streets, parks, and playgrounds.
— Darell Hammond
We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests.
I'm a huge, huge sports fan, and Marquette basketball is my No. 1 thing.
— Danny Pudi
I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.
— Danny Boyle
Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.
— Daniel Kahneman
I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
— Daniel Cormier
It's not like I'm going to go out and change the world and convert everyone into MMA fans. There's going to be fans out there who are fans of combat sports and fans of contact sports but not everybody's going to be converted.
— Dana White
Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.
— Dan Rather
The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'
— Dan Jenkins
The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.
I'm a big sports fan.
— David Chang
Though I loved books as a young boy, I loved sports even more. I wanted to be a quarterback in the CFL.
— David Bergen
We like sports. We're not apologizing for it.
The people at Barstool Sports are a bunch of average Joes, who like most guys love sports, gambling, golfing and chasing short skirts.
We really want Barstool Sports to be a brand that means something. It doesn't just have to be myself... you see the logo, that bar stool and the stars around it, and you know you're getting a certain type of vibe, a certain type of brand.
I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.
— Dave Chappelle
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
We're taking sports too far and starting kids too early.
Sports are not for everyone.
— Dante Hall
Restaurants and chefs have become followed by such a broad swath of the public, in a way that used to be reserved for sports stars, movie stars, and theater actors. Restaurants are in the firmament of today's common culture.
— Danny Meyer
I grew up doing a lot of extreme sports.
— Daniella Monet
Buying sports cars, going to expensive nightclubs, spraying people with champagne and things like that - what I learnt is that it wasn't for me, and, in fact, I feel pretty empty after doing that.
— Daniel Ek
In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
— Daniel Bryan
You always think as an organization, obviously if you're in sports, you want to be with ESPN. ESPN is it. But you don't really realize how good ESPN is and how big their platform really is until you're in it.
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
— Dan Quayle
Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by newspapers and magazines. They were my TV. I'd be the first one up to grab the morning paper, mainly to look at the sports pictures, the war pictures.
Tennis doesn't owe me anything. Tennis is one of the fairest sports. It's given me so many extraordinary feelings.
— David Ferrer
I wanted to play sports my whole life. That's all I really wanted to do.
If you see in sports at a super high level, people get hurt or have injuries when there isn't that pleasure, the true pleasure of the sport, when they're tired or demoralized or they're not quite focused.
— David Belle
We have no union at Barstool Sports. Nobody is trying to make a union at Barstool Sports.
This is exactly why Barstool Sports has to exist. We're one of the few places - maybe the only place - on the Internet where we don't let agendas dictate what we do.
Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.
I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.
— Dave Brubeck
I got into sports, thankfully, because I didn't listen to my mother.
— Dat Nguyen
As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds.
I love all sports.
Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.
In my final year of attending a Christian sports camp in rural Missouri, the year before I started high school, they began to offer an elective Bible study group for young Christians who wanted a chance to read in the afternoons instead of learn to water-ski.
— Daniel Mallory Ortberg
I did javelin, swimming, long distance running. But the reason I did these other sports was because of boxing. I didn't want to get sidetracked.
— Daniel Dubois
I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
— Dana Hussein
Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!
