We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands..

I never learned to read music..

Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place..

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life..

If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport..

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'.

I played six to 10 hours a day, every day, 90 days during the summer, and I'd do incredible things. I would dribble blindfolded in the house. I would….

Life is like any other contact sport. You may encounter hardships of one sort or another. Wise people find happiness not in the absence of such hards….

You can only get outside yourself by looking inside..

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up..

I understand Twitter much more than I understand Tumblr..

The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that..

I've never worked a day in my life. Don't get me wrong. I work at track. If you love what you do, it's not work..

I have never voted in my life..

There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure..

You have only one life, make the most of it.

Sports always works for us more allegorically or metaphorically and that's what's fantastic about why we love them. You demonstrate the limits to whi….

If you're thinking something good about your players, say it; don't save it for later..

Travel definitely affects me as a writer..

You're either living or you're dead..

Sit up straight, listen and participate..