The growth of the KHL is a very important aspect for the development of Russian sports.
— Alexander Ovechkin
I'm 5'3'', and not often you get to see that in a magazine. I think that what is so cool about 'Sports Illustrated' is it's all different body shapes, all difference sizes. You have actresses, sports figures, musicians, so it's all about skin deep beauty sort of radiating to the outside, and that's what's so special.
— Alexa Ray Joel
I think the quarterback position, moreso than in all of sports, no other position compares - you rely on so many people to do your job.
— Alex Smith
Babe Ruth is an icon, in sports and in our society.
— Alex Rodriguez
I rarely felt or noticed any real divide between girls and boys when I was growing up. Maybe it was because I was so involved in sports and competed with the boys. Maybe it was my mom and dad, who constantly instilled confidence in me and never made me feel as though there were boy activities and girl activities.
— Alex Morgan
I think it's huge, especially in team sports, for players to be able to rely on each other and to really trust in each other.
I was, and am, a frustrated filmmaker and film student, and my passion and love for movies was so broad that, in the earlier part of my career, I stumbled into doing 'Sports Night' and was a comedy director.
— Alex Graves
I'm a sports junkie, and I am interested in athletic will - how you exceed the expectations of your own performance when it counts to deliver something beyond yourself so that you can win.
— Alex Gibney
I had kind of left college. I wanted to study to be a sports teacher, but I had that little inner voice within me that said, 'You should be doing something else,' and I followed that gut instinct.
— Alesha Dixon
Oh, 'Sports Night' was tough because 'Sports Night' was... Well, you know, it's like Mamet. It's Sorkin. And I didn't realize that you had to immediately be off of the other actors' last line in their dialogue.
— Alanna Ubach
I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.
— Alan Parsons
I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.
— Al Michaels
Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?
— Al Boliska
I'm an athlete, and I have been interested in sports films.
— Aishwarya Rajesh
I leave work by 6:30 P.M. so I can spend some time with the children. Inevitably, we'll end up watching basketball or football. I live in a house of boys, and they're all sports mad, so I don't stand a chance.
— Aerin Lauder
People have tried to push me into other sports, but it's always been football.
— Adebayo Akinfenwa
In high school I just loved to compete and play sports. I didn't have a sport that I was going to say, 'Hey, I'm going to play this at the next level.' Whatever my best opportunity was was what I was going to do.
— Adam Thielen
Belarus is not a superpower, but we pay a lot of attention to sports.
— Alexander Lukashenko
I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.
— Alex Trebek
You're never going to make everybody happy; there are always going to be people that, yeah, aren't with you. That's the nature of sports.
My senior school didn't play football. It was a rugby and cricket school, and as I was on a sports scholarship, I was forced to play rugby.
— Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
Sportsmanship is definitely an important thing in all sports. In soccer, we all respect each other on such a high level, between Sweden and Brazil and Japan or whatever team it is.
It's an honour to be an Ambassador for DStv. Their passion for promoting sports is unrivalled across Africa.
— Alex Iwobi
Sports are the ultimate secular religion. Instead of being worried about whether your kids will be okay or how your job is going, you have your team, and you can focus all of your angst and your hopes and dreams on your team. I am in no way saying it always relieves any of this!
Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.
— Alex Berenson
My brothers were funny, and there was a lot of shtick and comedy and nastiness and violence and fighting and sports.
— Alec Baldwin
On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.
— Alan Thicke
My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.
— Alan King
I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
— Al McGuire
My love for sports will never die. I love martial arts and I want to promote it in whichever way I can. I am a fighter first, then an actor.
— Akshay Kumar
In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.
— Aimee Mullins
Most normal boys, as they're growing up, they - in order to become attractive, they might, you know, get good at sports or join a rock band or develop good social skills, and for some reason, I thought that drawing comic books might be my route.
— Adrian Tomine
Playing on Sky Sports doesn't really make a difference to me.
I'm not coming in as an advocate of sports gambling. I'm trying to be more of a realist to say it's going on in a massive way... and I think the right course would be therefore to legalize it and regulate it.
— Adam Silver
My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.
— Alexander Ludwig
In the America that I grew up in, men of Asia placed last in the hierarchy of manhood. They were invisible in the high-testosterone arenas of politics, big business, and sports. On television and in the movies, they were worse than invisible. They were embarrassing. We were embarrassing.
— Alex Tizon
My body shape has transformed as sports science research has developed. It used to be thought that footballers needed to be big and do lots of weights and little cardio.
— Alex Scott
I started off playing sports when I was five years old. I played three or four sports all throughout the year.
I have done 'Sports Illustrated,' but I don't regret it because it portrayed me in a positive way - as an athlete.
The diet for climbing all the time isn't really different from the diet for living. It's not like cardio sports where you're burning a bajillion calories every day.
— Alex Honnold
When I was a kid, I played sports a lot. My mom and dad were divorced, but I hung out in the neighborhood a lot, and it was all about sports. I would be out all day on the sand lot or on the hockey rink. My dad would take me to baseball games, but he worked so hard, and he would always fall asleep.
Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.
We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
— Alastair Campbell
Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.
— Alan Shepard
Baseball is a man maker.
— Al Spalding
One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.
— Al Kaline
My father was a very special human being. He was brilliant in academics, sports and the arts. He wrote, performed and directed plays in English and Hindi/Urdu at his regiment.
— Ajay Mehta
I grew up in New Jersey and played sports and rode my bike around. It was a really nice time - kids didn't have cellphones then - and you knew everyone in the town.
— Aileen Lee
Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.
— Adele
I'm enjoying watching my kids grow and play sports. That's a ton of fun.
— Adam Vinatieri
