Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.
Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.
For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.
I think you want to try every sport possible just to experience life.
Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
In fact cycling has always been 'saved' by judicial investigations and not by the anti-doping controls we put in place. That's the harsh truth. We have relied on them to clean the sport up.
It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.
Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.
Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.
Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.
The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.
For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.
I was quite fat as a kid. And swimming is a sport you can enjoy whatever size you are. If you're fat, running is a pain. I'm not really built for running.
I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.
I never thought acting would be my life. I only started doing it because I needed something to occupy my weekends after I dislocated my knee and couldn't play sport.
We penalize and suspend players for making contact with the head while checking, in an effort to reduce head injuries, yet we still allow fighting. We're stuck in the middle and need to decide what kind of sport do we want to be. Either anything goes and we accept the consequences, or take the next step and eliminate fighting.
My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing the state of Indian sport - inadequate representation, lack of satisfactory results etc. We thought we should do something about it.
Waterpolo is my life. Our relationship is that of predetermination I'll never be better at anything than waterpolo and that is why it is my duty to pursue this sport as long as I can, and to the best of my abilities.
Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE teachers, but the teachers who helped me in sport because they had an understanding of what you were going through.
Everyone in the world of cycling knows how much it is a team sport as well as individual. It's just amazing to be a part of.
BMX is still a young sport in Olympic terms. So the sport science behind it is also relatively new. As a program, it's only going to get better as the sport gets bigger and more extreme.
I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.
I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.
Never in a million years did I think the sport of poker would blow up the way it did.
If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can change lives.
Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my - my brother and I both loved sports.
Back then in the early '90s, people weren't calling it MMA - we called it Knockdown Sport Budo.
Just because we are in wheelchairs doesn't mean we can't play a fast-paced, full-contact sport.
It takes a certain type of man to become a boxer, to fight for a living. To be able to have the confidence to hit another man, to control your fears. You must overcome the psychical aspect and believe in the art, the discipline of the sport. You need to study. You need to be smart.
Cycling is an endurance sport. You lose your fast-twitch ability as you age, but your endurance peaks when you hit 30. I don't think I really started feeling my age until around 40.
I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning climber.
I'm treating country music like it's a sport. I'm looking at where my competition is and realized I needed to work on my songwriting.
If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.
