After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.
Some sports, you see some athletes just walking around the gym not really doing anything, eating food. They're first to the lunchroom, never lifting weights.
My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
I do appreciate a woman who has a passion for sports and knows their stuff.
I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports.
Just as sports teams recognize the potentially game-changing benefit of calling time-outs, failing to do so in matters of warfare is a surefire way to continue losing.
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.
The day after high school, I was off to basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Station. You gotta understand, we didn't care about sports. We wanted to win the war. We wanted to win the war! And at the time, we didn't know if we would.
My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.
Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.
It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.
I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately.
I was always into sports, and as a sportsperson, you need to be fit to survive and play from start to finish.
There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.
Some of the authorities would like to remove rhythmic gymnastics from the list of Olympic sports and turn it into art. I think this would be wrong, as rhythmic gymnastics is a true sport - we train around six hours per day and sometimes spend entire days in the gym.
I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.
When I was at AOL, I was always on the web media side while much of the company was focused on the ISP business. We focused on big categories like celebrities and sports, and we created brands around that category like AOL Celebrities, AOL Movies and Fanhouse.
We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.
My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.
Playing in New England and the Boston area, the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well, they'll let you know so I know it's not something that they take lightly.
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.
If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.
All sports for all people.
Every guy should have a fantasy sports team.
I think the American sports culture has the idea that professional athletes need so much, like flying private planes, which obviously we don't, but that's the American sports culture when they think of the NFL and the NBA.
I play sports - like, I play a little bit of tennis, swimming, like a normal kid. I watch movies.
I keep getting these extraordinary letteres, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink.
For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.
Sports life is very short.
When you're young, you need to be silly and be stupid and not be trying to do that when you're 40 in a red sports car.
I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.
I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.
I think it's... I don't want to become a social crusader on this issue, but I think sports, male sports, has traditionally not been an inviting environment for gay men to identify themselves. But eventually... we will get to a place where it is not an issue in sports.
I was never really a nerd. I'm not really into comic books or Dungeons and Dragons or any of that kind of stuff. I was in drama class, and I'm a big movie and music buff. And I'm into sports.
The world of extreme sports is also one of big business. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors.
