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To me, doing the Olympics in 1992 in Barcelona for NBC, just seeing the Dream Team take the floor, was a thrill for me. I don't think there was another team in any sport with that high level of athletes playing together. Marv Albert

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for. Mary Lou Retton

Other Dream Winners Sport Than Famous Many Medal Competing

While the U.S. government is unlikely to ever limit the number of football games, plenty of parents are refusing to let their children play the sport due to the risk of head injuries. Mary Pilon

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Women's combat sports have been on a good run in the United States. Claressa Shields won a gold medal in women's boxing at the London Olympics in 2012, when it became a medal sport. American women won medals in taekwondo and judo as well. Mary Pilon

I wasn't interested in sport or anything obvious, so I didn't stand out. I was interested in music, but I couldn't read music, so I wasn't allowed to do the GCSE. I was interested in painting, but no one's interested in a 16-year-old boy who's interested in painting. I wanted to get out of school very, very quickly. Matt Berry

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In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters. Matt Emmons

Sport Measured Fraction

If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it. Maurice Greene

You Took Those Runners Tainted Sponsors Look Sport Because Were Years Years Ago Lot Fewer Us Who Compared Now Why

I gotta respect our sport, my division, and the guys that are fighting in it. That's what I gotta do. Max Holloway

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If you're not confident in this sport, you're not going to get very, very far. Max Holloway

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I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that. Maya Rudolph

Comedy Know Sport Always Male Wondered

I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport. Mercedes McCambridge

People Hunt Sport Call Use Who

If someone were to actually come to one of our training sessions, there's lots of flipping and sweating and crying and blood going on all over the place. I mean, if that doesn't qualify it as a sport, then I don't know what does. Meryl Davis

Back then in the early '90s, people weren't calling it MMA - we called it Knockdown Sport Budo. Michael Bisping

People Back Sport Calling Were Then Early

Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with Butch Reynolds for many years. I won all the races, but Butch was the world record holder before I came into the sport, he was extremely talented and he was the only other man running 43 seconds. Michael Johnson

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Football is the No. 1 sport in America. Michael Ovitz

Football Sport America

In student government in high school, I learned how to deal with people, and in college I studied Eastern philosophy. I'm also an avid team-sports fan. I think I just blended them all together and came out with a business management philosophy that combines the Eastern ethic with the Western sport concept, basically. Michael Ovitz

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Those who know the sport of swimming understand that the grueling practices that fill a pre-Olympic winter lay the base for any success that might come later in the Games, especially if one has it in mind to swim an astonishing eight events. Michael Paterniti

Sloppy casual has always been my default look. My preppier classmates in high school would sometimes sport two, three, even four shirts at a time - Lauren, Izod, Brooks Brothers, all collars-up - while I wore secondhand faded olive German-army fatigues and this cool T-shirt with a troll on it. Michael Paterniti

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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. Michael Phelps

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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. Michael Phelps

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