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  • I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I played for the New England Patriots in the NFL and professional lacrosse for the Boston Blazers. I had an injury, so I had to stop so I could heal. But when I was playing football, I wasn't making a lot of money; I wasn't a superstar.

  • Playing professional sports, it's important to eat healthy and take care of your body. In the offseason, rest is really important to me.

    "Training Tips for the No-Offseason Athlete". Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2012.
  • There are complaints that it's hard to remember what you can say and what you can't, which words are 'in' for certain groups and which words are not. And yet we started out learning that the 'kitty' on the sidewalk was actually a squirrel, we learned to differentiate between fire trucks and school buses, and many people today know the difference between linguini, fettucini, and rotini. The same people who say they can't remember the 'right' terms in referring to people are often whizzes at remembering which professional sports teams have moved where and are now called what.

    Sports   Team   School  
  • There is certainly an underrepresentation of Asian Pacific Islanders in professional sports/athletics.

  • The NBA is the strongest professional sports league in the world. The league and the game is bigger than any one person, Michael Jordan included, and they always will be. I hope that today players, especially our young players, continue to recognize that simple fact. Nothing is more important than the game itself and the fans who support it.

  • I work under three umbrellas: entertainment, education, and entrepreneurship. Of course the entertainment fragment speaks for itself because I'm in Chicago. However, a lot of folks may not know I teach courses at Ohio State University that covers life in professional sports.

    Source: www.ebony.com
  • Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.

  • In all American professional sports you start on a certain level and you have to work your way up through a farm system. It's really the same in acting.

    Sports   Acting   Levels  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I want to successfully make the transition from a life in professional sports to another life, without running into major upheavals.

    "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.
  • The greatest owner in professional sports history is Eddie DeBartolo.

  • We all have to draw some lines. To preserve my sanity, I steer clear of cooking, professional sports and most imports, unless imported to us via PBS, Sundance, etc.

    Sports   Pbs   Cooking  
    "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. October 15, 2015.
  • I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.

    Sports   Games   Play  
    "'Barack changes everything'". Interview with John Colapinto, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2009.
  • I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

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

    Sports   Nfl   League  
  • I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.

    Sports   Time   Children  
  • I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.

    Sports   Hockey   Fandoms  
  • One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

  • Obviously the current approach on steroids both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working.

  • The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

    Sports   Epidemics   Nba  
    Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward S”, p.81, Simon and Schuster
  • It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.

    Sports   Liars   Cycling  
  • Which I think is great. I don't think there's nothing wrong with it. If you look in most professional sports, they're run by Jewish people. If you look at a lot of most successful corporations and stuff, more businesses, they're run by Jewish. It's not a knock, but they are some crafty people.

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

  • A lot of players go into a restaurant and ask for a special table. I go and stand in line with the working people. It's very easy to get spoiled playing professional sports.

    Sports   Player   People  
  • You can't imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, "God, you treat those assholes like I'd like to treat them." And my question is, "Then why don't you?".

    Sports   Numbers   People  
    "On the Road With America's Angriest Man. An Interview With Bobby Knight". playboysfw.kinja.com. March 20, 2014.
  • To convert college sports into professional sports would be tantamount to converting it into minor league sports. And we know that in the U.S., minor league sports aren’t very successful either for fan support or for the fan experience.

    "NCAA leader Mark Emmert decries 'pay for play' as a threat to core of college sports", www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2014.
  • Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

    Sports   Men   Years  
    Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.56, Spectra
  • The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

  • You need to have a great, strong bladder to call professional sports because, especially in football where, you know, you don't know how long a half's going to last and then the timeouts happen and a incomplete pass.

    Source: www.npr.org
  • There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

  • Professional sports is a business.

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