Being involved in sports and having a very sport orientated family just helped the transition extremely well. I guess, in a way, your school colleagues saw you out and about, and you were part of the team you were getting into the Australian way, learning the language. The transition was extremely smooth.
— Saroo Brierley
My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.
— Santiago Cabrera
I am focusing on entertainment because entertainment is the best way to promote sports in India. And wrestling can benefit a lot through entertainment. That's why I am trying my best to juggle between wrestling and entertainment.
— Sangram Singh
More entertainers should come forward to support sports. I'd love to see Akshay Kumar in a film on Indian martial arts.
I want to encourage more people in small villages to take up sports.
I still remember the time when I visited the wax museum in London. While there were statues of many sports personalities, including that of Sachin Tendulkar, I didn't see a wax figure of any hockey player. I was a little disappointed at that time, and I hoped that one day, at least in India, someone would make a wax statue of a hockey player.
— Sandeep Singh
I just want to see more understanding and less racism in sports.
— Samuel Eto'o
OKCupid's model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it's the news or whether it's sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way.
— Sam Yagan
In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
— Sam Hunt
I read research like other people read sports magazines or fashion magazines.
— Sallie Krawcheck
My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
— Saina Nehwal
Of course sports and politics intersect, and those conversations belong, more than anywhere else, on a network devoted to sports.
— S.E. Cupp
I was into sports in high school, but I got kicked out of Richmond High at 17, so I never graduated. However, I still get invites to the class reunions... I don't know that I want to see how everyone looks now.
— Ryan Stiles
The farther I go East in the U.S. the more I get recognized because of more sports crazy the East Coast is.
— Ryan Leaf
The Americans love Aussies, but they're actually quite afraid of us at the same time because they think we're insane. Then they see our sports - league, union, and AFL - and that makes them even more worried.
— Russell Crowe
When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.
— Rube Goldberg
I think I'd probably shine really well in a team sport, but as everybody knows, I don't handle politics very well. A lot of team sports has a lot of politics. Individual sports, it's all about me.
— Roy Nelson
Unless you enjoy life passionately, you cannot be a good artiste. Practise what you like, be it sports or dancing.
— Sarita Choudhury
I love team sports - they give me something to focus on rather than the fact that I can't breathe or my muscles are aching.
— Sanjeev Bhaskar
For too long now, cricket has got all the attention and money. Look at how much financial help cricket gets from the sports federations.
I want to create as many opportunities as possible for people inclined towards sports.
I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.
— Sanford I. Weill
The success or failing in one competition doesn't define you, and that is one thing that any sports would teach you.
I love professional wrestling, and I love sports entertainment.
— Samoa Joe
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
— Sam Snead
My favorite was always whichever sport was in season. I think these days it's almost saddening to see kids who are 10 or 11 and are forced to choose one sport and specialize in that sport and play that sport year-round. By playing different sports... you become a better all-around athlete.
— Sam Bradford
All sports should get support from the government and corporate bodies.
Sanitizing ESPN of politics and opinion would make it a relic; sports fans have dozens of places online to go for scores and highlights.
But the rising chorus urging ESPN to change its stripes is missing something: The intersection of sports and politics is natural. And the left-wing lean of ESPN is inevitable. Conservatives bothered by the slant should stop hand-wringing and start their own network.
I am so grateful to everybody that supports the Sheckler Foundation, and gives us the ability to continue to help kids and injured action sports athletes.
— Ryan Sheckler
I like playing all sports, from football to soccer, and I love playing baseball.
— Ryan Guzman
I attended sports school in Bulgaria just like my parents. I attended class twice a day and trained twice a day.
— Rusev
For me, drawing was an outlet. No one in school said, 'Oh, she can do sports,' or, 'She's pretty,' but I could draw.
— Roz Chast
I always thought the best part about sports was the bigger, faster kids who were supposed to be more athletic than me - I always beat.
When I was younger, I was very athletic and I always loved sports and physical things.
— Saoirse Ronan
There is an abundance of good sports talent in India, and wrestling needs a strong support of a very big brand to endorse the sport.
Wherever I go, I now easily get the attention of the sports fraternity.
I want to tell all the youngsters in Nagpur and in the rest of India that sports is not merely about winning medals; it is about being fit and healthy. It is not about six-packs and going to gym, but exercising right and eating intelligently.
Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
— Sandy Koufax
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
— Samuel Richardson
Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.
— Samina Baig
I've always craved winning. It's just easier in sports because there's a scoreboard.
I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.
I want to see more sports in schools.
When Colin Kaepernick refuses to stand for the anthem, that's both a sports story and a politics story.
Tribalism, after all, is part of our evolutionary DNA. The need to identify with a group, to belong and commune with like-minded people is not only biological, it's what has helped motivate our desire for and devotion to all kinds of important cultural institutions, from organized religion to sports fandom.
When you are 10, and you are with friends making music or playing sports or doing whatever, I would say, enjoy that and try to keep that as the model for as long as you can.
— Ryan Lewis
I really love mountain sports, hiking, skiing, and I love to travel and get to know different places and cultures.
— Ruth Reinhardt
In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the fringes of society. I think all Australians agree that this is intolerable. So we must demand as much of our schools as we do of our sports teams - and ensure that they keep the Australian dream alive for every child.
— Rupert Murdoch
Some athletes can master two sports, but most are only good at one.
