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I keep getting these extraordinary letters, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink.

When I was a boy I was called a nerd all the time — because I didn’t like sports, I loved to read, I liked math and science, I thought school was really cool — and it hurt a lot. Because it’s never ok when a person makes fun of you for something you didn’t choose. You know, we don’t choose to be nerds. We can’t help it that we like these things — and we shouldn’t apologize for liking these things.

Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

Having loved sport my whole life, competing in a Paralympics would be a dream come true.

I'm very down-to-earth and approachable, and I can be one of the guys and watch sports... I like to cook - I'm like the girl next door.

I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.

Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what youre doing at any given time.

I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life...It would be cliché to say my dad, my granddad. I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

I now LOVE archery, I find it a very therapeutic sport. I would be taken away for a couple of hours before we started filming to get back into the rhythm so that it was a fluid movement of picking up the bow and then the arrows and just being able to make it look as authentic as possible.

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

If I could be good at any sport, it'd be javelin. I know a few people I would love to throw a spear at.

Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.

All of my free time is made up of motor sports endeavors, be them motorcycles or off-road racing or track days. I just love anything with an engine. That is one of my main loves. Obviously, my other well-known love is Kristen Bell.

Rowing is a simple sport stuffed up by experts

My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.

It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, 'Don't play like me, play like you.'