My dad was always at work running a business, so our mom really took care of us. She'd bring us all to our practices, and we all basically played four sports: baseball, hockey, football, and basketball.
— Dan Gronkowski
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
— Dan Gable
You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
— Dale Earnhardt
I didn't know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I'd go down. I was hoping it was sports, like so many kids.
— D. B. Sweeney
Some of the most racist things that I've ever heard come out of people that are on the air at ESPN. There are some of the biggest racists in sports commentating, and you take it for what it is.
— Curt Schilling
Your image in sports will always matter.
— Cris Carter
As a young boy, I had the usual hobbies - sports, baseball cards, model airplanes and trains. But I always had a distinct fascination with trains.
— Craig Sager
Sports are in my soul. That's what drives me.
Sports men and women need hip replacements. It was all those years of classical ballet and forcing turn-outs. It can be quite detrimental to your body.
— Craig Revel Horwood
My grandmother is a huge Hawkeyes fan, so I, by proxy, have to be one. I'm more of a professional sports fan, and I've never been a huge college fan, but because of my grandmother, I've gotten into a lot of really good Hawkeye games. So, because I'm a good grandson, I'm a Hawkeye fan.
— Corey Taylor
I don't watch too much TV when it comes to sports or news or things like that.
— Colin Kaepernick
Growing up, all I did was play sports. I always loved music, but I never even thought I'd be on stage one day.
— Cole Swindell
There is a solidarity that black people can find in celebrating the athletic success of our own, especially in sports where our existence is sparse.
— Clint Smith
I'm a big sports fan even outside of baseball. I love watching guys that are supposed to be great, and are great, live up to the expectations. So I really appreciate consistency.
— Clayton Kershaw
We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.
— Claudio Reyna
Sports commentating is the answer for a restless brain like mine. I can never get bored because there is an infinite amount to know.
— Clare Balding
It's become another dimension to who I am. I don't think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I'm at a different place in my life.
— Cindy Crawford
When there were first rumors of us going after LeBron, some fans wondered how we could do that after all that happened. But after the 'Sports Illustrated' letter, every fan is thrilled to have him back. That was so heartfelt.
— Dan Gilbert
I'm about 5' 10", and my hair is the length of my whole body now. We grow our hair because of faith, but it's getting heavy. Most of the rastas I know with hair my length are elders, and they keep it tied up, but for a young person who's active and running around, the weight is a big thing. So to play sports, I put it in a backpack.
— Damian Marley
I didn't have any friends. I was bullied. I didn't play sports.
— Dacre Montgomery
Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.
— Curtis Joseph
There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.
Live TV is the future. It's the only way you can beat the DVRing of America. Everything is DVRed, and no one watches stuff when it's on. Awards shows and sports are watched when they're broadcast.
— Craig Zadan
I look forward to continuing my work on the sidelines for Turner Sports.
Sports are supposed to be fun, and so I have fun with the way I dress.
Actors are very emotional, whereas sports people are used to criticism.
Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections.
— Condoleezza Rice
For a while, I was all sports all the time. Then, as I started to get into theater, they dropped away, but I hung on tight with a highly competitive Ultimate Frisbee team. It was probably less intense than I remember, but it was fun.
— Colin Donnell
I don't have the attention span for sports.
— Colbie Caillat
Sometimes sports serves as a reprieve from politics, and sometimes it serves as an extension of it.
It's always great to do something to impact kids in sports.
I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.
I hate the fact that public schools like the one I went to have fantastic sports facilities, and state schools don't. That's not fair. That's outrageous.
We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings.
— Chuck Palahniuk
When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
Coming where I'm coming from, really, my family name isn't a pressure because, you know, music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up. Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.
When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.
No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.
From a very early age, as far back as I can remember, I always played sports.
— Cris Judd
I was a big sports fan, and I had been closely monitoring Hank Aaron's home run totals since I was a kid playing on the sandlot adjacent to the Foundry and Machine Company in Batavia, Illinois.
I'm a kid from the small Illinois town of Batavia, who grew up on the Chicago Cubs and made sports his life's work, although there's never been a day where it actually seemed like work.
But 'Strictly' is meant to showcase people with talents in acting, singing, sports, journalism… not fame-seekers with no discernible talent.
I'll go out, but I leave early, before the shenanigans. I don't really do the Hollywood party thing. I'd rather watch sports or play videogames or work out or sleep, to be totally honest.
— Cory Monteith
I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing.
— Common
After I went to college, I realized that no matter how much I loved sports, I was ready to have fun, and that was right when I started to sing.
In professional sports, things can change quickly. You keep your balance. You keep your perspective, and things will work out.
— Clyde Drexler
Hitting's the hardest thing to do in sports.
EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world.
I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.
— Claudia Rankine
The sad thing is that I know no athletes' names. I am not a sports girl at all.
— Clara Mamet
