Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
This is a time when the United States should be standing tall. There is no other leader in the world today. We shouldn't be approaching conflicts as a team sport. We either get in an we lead and we do a good job, or you don't get in at all.
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.
The idea that so many kids eat rubbish and sit on computers all day long appals me and getting them into sport is a major way of getting them off computers and leading healthier lives.
No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.
I ran track, and basically played every sport.
'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.
I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.
In this sport, the good thing about the UFC and MMA in general is a lot of it's based on perception.
Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.
This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.
The parents say, 'Can you talk to my daughter and say that it's OK? That she can have muscles?' They'll say, 'I show her pictures of you so they can know she's good at what she does but still looks like a girl. She wears dresses.' It releases people to be whoever they want to be in the sport.
Everyday there's something that reminds me why I love this sport.
Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.
I'm not in this sport to take punishment.
Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.
Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport.
Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.
There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
I really love all sport. I watch sports when I can, but when push comes to show, I think I know it's entertainment.
I was a big fan of amateur wrestling, and I loved it and dedicated my whole life to it for 20-something years, and it's not really a glory-getting sport.
You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.
I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.
In our sport, there's only two people, so if you're not winning, then you're losing.
To me I don't think sport is something that I can take for life. I still have my academy, my studies.
I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.
Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.
In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Bastille. It fell upon the sunniest field, upon the happiest home.
The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
Fighting is the only sport where fans don't understand this is our living.
All of my activities are so pedestrian. The extreme sport I play is ping pong. And we play it hard. If any of you suckers want to step up to the table, be ready.
The best thing about having your brother in the same sport as you means you can go out and train together every day, and we can push each other on. That's something many of our rivals don't have when training day in day out.
Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport.
And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.