I love sports and I love sports movies.

And I realized that there was no sports reporter so I started covering sporting events.

Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans it's communities it's geography.

I think life is sort of like a competition whether it's in sports or it's achieving in school or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.

But I was very much into sports when I was a child.

That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.

Sports is the only entertainment where no matter how many times you go back you never know the ending.

That's the biggest problem with boxing in the United States. They do not promote it like they used to when it used to be Howard Cosell and they showed it on 'Wide World of Sports.' Everybody knew all the fighters. Everybody was looking forward to the year when the Olympics came on.

One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

I wanted to play sports my whole life. That's all I really wanted to do.

I'm a sports guy. Football God I flip out.

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent somebody else will.

I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up but I never had any kind of workout regimen.

I started my cooking 'career' aged 15 almost 20 years ago. At the time it was quite a shock suddenly working 75 to 80 hours a week without time to play football or other sports.

We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.

I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.

When a sports movie really works it gets you on all levels because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players bands that play quiet unassuming music and TV shows that win awards. In that way I am an elitist snob.

Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and it's all different.

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.