Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
Irwin Shaw

Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that.
Brian Boitano

You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport.
Guy Forget

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.
Robert Redford

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.
Mike Piazza

You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.
Sergei Bubka

You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there.
Monica Seles

You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.
Lynn Davies