The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good is just as important as how you deal with bad.

Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

You can have financial strength professional strength emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional - and that's not me at all!

I'm thrilled I'm grateful I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy always a Dallas Cowboy.

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

Professional sports is a business.

Professional sports are something they can't control.

I was an All-American in wrestling in high school was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.

We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward especially for kids.

The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

I think professional sports football to use it as an example it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money it's a whole other level.

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons so I really came very quickly in all sports.

It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested Crystal Palace being one but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional college or international.

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

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