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  • Al Michaels on sports

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    “Monday Night Football started in 1970, and when it started, it was something extremely special because sports had not been aired in prime time. So, it was a novelty, and a lot of people thought it wouldn’t work, and, of course, it worked spectacularly well.” -Al Michaels

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  • Lynn Swann on sports

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    “Professional sports is a business.” -Lynn Swann

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  • Neil Peart on sports

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    “I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn’t skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.” -Neil Peart

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  • Eric Bristow on sports

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    “Nah, I don’t watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don’t have the time.” -Eric Bristow

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  • Sutton Foster on sports

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    “I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it’s baseball or sports or knitting or the movies.” -Sutton Foster

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  • Norm MacDonald on sports

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    “I sort of try to write everything for me. I’m a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don’t remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio. I’m trying to make sure the jokes are self-contained so they’re accessible to everyone.” -Norm MacDonald

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  • Bill Lee on sports

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    “When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It’s like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.” -Bill Lee

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  • Rebecca Lobo on sports

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    “There’s nothing masculine about being competitive. There’s nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don’t know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.” -Rebecca Lobo

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  • Shawn Levy on sports

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    “I just think that sports movies have such a built-in visceral, rooting interest, an epic win or lose redemptive quality. When they get it right, it can make for a really rousing movie experience.” -Shawn Levy

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  • Kate Clinton on sports

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    “My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It’s got politics in it, it’s got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.” -Kate Clinton

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  • James E. Rogers on sports

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    “Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.” -James E. Rogers

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  • Brooklyn Decker on sports

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    “The ‘Sports Illustrated’ cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, ‘You know what, I really… I don’t want to be a model anymore. I really want to do movies.’ And I think he wanted to wring my neck at the moment.” -Brooklyn Decker

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  • Jack Wagner on sports

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    “I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.” -Jack Wagner

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  • January Jones on sports

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    “I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports – he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.” -January Jones

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  • Michael Lewis on sports

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    “The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.” -Michael Lewis

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  • Callie Khouri on sports

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    “I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don’t think it didn’t happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don’t sell internationally.” -Callie Khouri

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  • Troy Vincent on sports

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    “Professional sports are something they can’t control.” -Troy Vincent

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  • Rick Yune on sports

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    “When you have a background in combat sports, people think you’re this martial arts expert, but really I’m just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.” -Rick Yune

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  • Claudio Reyna on sports

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    “EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world.” -Claudio Reyna

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  • Wendell Pierce on sports

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    “The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.” -Wendell Pierce

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  • Jerry Lawler on sports

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    “We’ve finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that’s fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to.” -Jerry Lawler

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  • Steven Chu on sports

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    “I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.” -Steven Chu

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  • Josh Charles on sports

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    “I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.” -Josh Charles

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  • Gerry Cooney on sports

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    “All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.” -Gerry Cooney

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  • Jay Mohr on sports

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    “Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.” -Jay Mohr

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