“Gray skies are just clouds passing over.”

“I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.”

“My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.'”

“Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.”

“The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.”

“I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.”

“I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.”

“If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.”

“I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.”

“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.”

“I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.”

“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.”

“I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night, from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pippin' were few and far between.”

“In the morning, I reach for the sports page.”

“These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.”

“There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.”

“I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.”

“Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.”

“I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.”

“I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually.”

“I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.”