“ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.”

“I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.”

“My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.”

“I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.”

“If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.”

“Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.”

“I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.”

“People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.”

“When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.”

“I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.”

“When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.”

“The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.”

“Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.”

“I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead, so it's always been something I look towards.”

“We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game.”

“I got amazing training both with Theatre Sports... back in Edmonton, Alberta - I can't give those people enough credit - and the daytime drama I did. Incredible training, both of them.”

“I liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports.”

“I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.”

“I think that every single person should play sports.”

“Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.”

“Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.”