“I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.”

“The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.”

“I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.”

“Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.”

“I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me.”

“I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.”

“While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.”

“It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.”

“Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.”

“Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.”

“The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.”

“A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.”

“My sister is totally my dad's daughter because she loves sports.”

“If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.”

“I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.”

“If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.”

“Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.”

“We're not doing outrageous fashion I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.”

“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”

“As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.”

“There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.”