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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia.

As the days went on, I didn't mind the games. In fact, I looked forward to them. That was the easiest part of all. I couldn't wait to get to the ballpark I'd be the first one there and I was willing to do anything. I think that's why the veterans liked me.

To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.

Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

But I would say basically, I would just like to be remembered for what I did on the field.

Everything I was, physically and mentally, that's what I put on that field.

The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

My dream was always to be on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated.'

I love my curves. You know, I'm healthy and I think thats what Sports Illustrated represents: healthy, confident women who love their bodies.

My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

Skateboarding is not a hobby. And it is not a sport. Skateboarding is a way of learning how to redefine the world around you. For most people, when they saw a swimming pool, they thought, ‘Let's take a swim.' But I thought, ‘Let's ride it.' When they saw the curb or a street, they would think about driving on it. I would think about the texture. I slowly developed the ability to look at the world through totally different means.

We were the chosen rejects. We chose not to be apart of the popular crowd. I mean, I can rember a lot of times the more popular people, the 'jock type' of people who were into sports, and staying clean, and brushing there teeth all the time, they always asked me if I wanted to join their little club, and i decided not to, you know, I would rather hang out with the people who didn't get picked for the baseball team, you know, who smoke cigarettes and listen to rock 'n' roll music.

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

It doesn't look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary dietary advice. And then we hear that she's out eating ribs at 1500 calories a serving with 141 grams of fat ... No, I'm trying to say that our first lady does not project the image of women that you might see on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue or of a woman Alex Rodriguez might date every six months or what have you.

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

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