“I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.”

“I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.”

“Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.”

“All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.”

“I am a sports fanatic and being able to perform at halftime for the fans of the Steelers and the Jets is such a thrill for me.”

“One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.”

“You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.”

“For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care.”

“As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.”

“You cannot mix sports with politics.”

“There is so much hypocrisy in sports.”

“I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.”

“All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.”

“You win some, lose some, and wreck some.”

“I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.”

“I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.”

“I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.”

“I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.”

“Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.”

“Wrestling is ballet with violence.”

“For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America.”