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There's no doubt about it that my participation in sports allowed me to compete in the business world in a very gender-neutral way.
Beth Brooke
Me
Business
Sports
World
Doubt
Way
No Doubt
About
Allowed
Participation
Very
Business World
Compete
My background is in dance. No, I'm kidding. I was actually really uncoordinated as a child, when it came to dance, but I did play a lot of sports, and I do some break-dancing from time-to-time. No, I really don't.
Beth Riesgraf
Sports
Dance
Background
Kidding
Some
Came
Lot
Child
Did
Really
Play
Actually
Going back about 10 years ago, the only thing a black kid could do to get out of the ghetto was being a sports star. Now we can add music to that, which is a good achievement in itself.
Big Narstie
Music
Good
Achievement
Sports
Black
Add
Back
Ghetto
Kid
Out
About
Only
Could
Years
Years Ago
Itself
Get
Going
Being
The Only Thing
Which
Star
Now
Thing
Natural hydration is a key factor in any type of sports performance.
Bikram Choudhury
Sports
Natural
Key
Type
Factor
Performance
Any
I come from a very athletic family. But I didn't have the typical Jewish sports heroes. I mean, like lots of Jewish kids I admired Sandy Koufax. But I didn't look up to him as the one person who gave me the desire to push on and succeed. My brothers did that for me.
Bill Goldberg
Family
Me
Sports
Heroes
Gave
Typical
Kids
Athletic
Admired
Brothers
Push
Come
Like
Look
Him
Koufax
Lots
Up
Very
Person
Did
Mean
Succeed
Sandy
Who
Desire
Jewish
In Tulsa, it was sports or nothing.
Bill Hader
Sports
Nothing
I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.
Bill James
Sports
Little Things
About
Feel
Like
Understand
Little
Things
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.
Bill James
Sports
People
First
Crushed
Top
Would
Athletes
Through
Never
Pushing
Because
Encourage
Get
So Many People
Children
Unfortunate
Breaks
Who
Many
Each
Each One
Second
When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.
Bill Lee
You
Constitution
Sports
Mind
Church
State
Church And State
Says
Enter
Like
Up
Screwing
Which
Processes
Cerebral
Separate
Body
Start
I was the kid who would join a sports team and be the biggest liability at first and a star player by the time the game got going. I just move very slowly.
Bill Pullman
Time
Game
Sports
First
Kid
Would
Slowly
Join
Got
Very
Going
Move
Just
Biggest
Team
Who
Star
Player
By The Time
Liability
You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.
Bill Simmons
You
Sports
Sometimes
Perspective
Care
Strangers
Other
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Way
Wealthy
About
Put
Failures
Always
Prove
Hear
Tragedies
Bunch
Going
Much
Successes
There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
Billie Jean King
Life
Me
Sports
Thought
Slow
Girl
Past
Too
Would
Would-Be
Scared
No Life
Tennis
League
Because
Got
Golf
Little
Realized
Little League
Team
Team Sports
Swim
When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
Billie Jean King
Business
Sports
Woman
Women
Young
Say
Take
Were
Surveys
Them
Young Woman
Successful
Fortune
Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
Billie Jean King
Sports
Women
Girl
Beginning
Finally
States
Athletic
Scholarships
Passage
Still
Infancy
Get
Title
United
United States
Started
In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
Billie Jean King
Sports
Women
People
Girl
Active
Seventies
Those
Okay
Athletes
Had
Make
Accept
Acceptable
Females
Were
Times
Them
Much
The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
Billie Joe Armstrong
You
Sports
People
Amazing
Believe
Complete
Athletes
See
Total
Highest
Highest Level
Human
Human Beings
Beings
Even
Now
Level
Things
What passes for sports coverage is terribly sycophantic.
Billy Crystal
Sports
Terribly
Passes
Coverage
I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.
Bing Gordon
Life
Government
Sports
School
Ran
High
High School
Student
Never
Picked
Newspaper
Captain
Whole
Played
I think the worst thing that's happened to sports is 'sources say.'
Blake Griffin
Sports
Think
Say
Worst
Worst Thing
Sources
Happened
Thing
Partnering with EA Sports and being on the cover of 'NCAA 10 is' very exciting. And to be on the list of guys who have been on the cover before me is exciting.
Blake Griffin
Me
Sports
Before
Guys
Exciting
Cover
Been
Very
List
Being
Who
That's the good thing about sports - it's very clear-cut. You either win, or you don't.
Blake Griffin
Good
You
Sports
Win
About
Good Thing
Very
Either
Thing
I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.
Bob Beamon
Sports
Think
Television
Able
Through
Excitement
Exciting
Participant
Most
Track
Print
Still
Been
Capitalize
Media
Sometimes when you've reached a peak experience, you look for other peak experiences... I'd always been interested in art. I was looking for other experiences outside of sports. Art was a form of expression I had always liked a great deal.
Bob Beamon
Art
Great
You
Sports
Experience
Sometimes
Great Deal
Looking
Other
Outside
Had
Liked
Look
Reached
Deal
Always
Been
Experiences
Form
Interested
Expression
Peak
I'm a chilled-out guy, and I really like sports and to play badminton and squash.
Bobby Deol
Sports
Guy
Badminton
Like
Squash
Really
Play
When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP, and the MVP in the history of team sports is Bill Russell.
Bobby Knight
Best
History
Sports
Somebody
Russell
About
More
Greatest
Than
The History Of
Ask
Bill
Team
Team Sports
Start
Player
Players
When we created Overwatch at Blizzard, it was always with the expectation that we would be able to celebrate and recognize our players in a way that would be consistent with traditional sports.
Bobby Kotick
Sports
Celebrate
Expectation
Our
Way
Consistent
Recognize
Would
Would-Be
Able
Always
Blizzard
Traditional
Created
Players
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