Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.

I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.

I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.

Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.