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Professional sports is a business. -- Lynn Swann
Professional sports are something they can't control. -- Troy Vincent
I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment. -- Gregg Easterbrook
It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports. -- Roger Goodell
I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies. -- Ted Turner
I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy. -- Bob Hayes
The greatest owner in professional sports history is Eddie DeBartolo. -- Ronnie Lott
Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball -- Roger Clemens
When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters. -- Leo Durocher
There is certainly an underrepresentation of Asian Pacific Islanders in professional sports/athletics. -- Nathan Adrian
Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population. -- Gabriel Luna
Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit. -- Neal Stephenson
It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar. -- Greg LeMond
Everybody wants to play his natural position and play every day, but in the world of professional sports that's not always possible. -- Brian Roberts
I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to. -- Spike Lee
I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports. -- Arthur Ashe
In all American professional sports you start on a certain level and you have to work your way up through a farm system. It's really the same in acting. -- Bruce Dern
We all have to draw some lines. To preserve my sanity, I steer clear of cooking, professional sports and most imports, unless imported to us via PBS, Sundance, etc. -- Hank Stuever
Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass. -- Bob Hope
A lot of players go into a restaurant and ask for a special table. I go and stand in line with the working people. It's very easy to get spoiled playing professional sports. -- Johnny Damon
Major league baseball players and owners should meet immediately to enact the standards that apply to the minor leagues, and if they don't, I will have to introduce legislation that says professional sports will have minimum standards for testing. I'll give them until January, and then I'll introduce legislation. -- John McCain
Which I think is great. I don't think there's nothing wrong with it. If you look in most professional sports, they're run by Jewish people. If you look at a lot of most successful corporations and stuff, more businesses, they're run by Jewish. It's not a knock, but they are some crafty people. -- Michael Ray
The NBA is the strongest professional sports league in the world. The league and the game is bigger than any one person, Michael Jordan included, and they always will be. I hope that today players, especially our young players, continue to recognize that simple fact. Nothing is more important than the game itself and the fans who support it. -- Michael Jordan
Whatever fighting words you hear from the bargaining table, the reality is that with the new TV contract about to take effect and the incredibly lucrative ancillary revenue streams, both sides know we are on the verge of ushering in the most lucrative payday in the history of professional sports. The history of professional football is that nothing happens until the very last moment. -- Leigh Steinberg
I'm getting more and more bored with professional sports, but I still watch. -- Michael Keaton
There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer. -- Curt Schilling
In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees. -- Don Yaeger
Playing professional sports, it's important to eat healthy and take care of your body. In the offseason, rest is really important to me. -- Troy Polamalu
I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury. -- Joe Taslim
The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents. -- Will McDonough
We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids. -- Mick Cornett
That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team. -- Warren Moon
I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?' -- Bailey Chase
I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup. -- Rachel Nichols
My grandmother is a huge Hawkeyes fan, so I, by proxy, have to be one. I'm more of a professional sports fan, and I've never been a huge college fan, but because of my grandmother, I've gotten into a lot of really good Hawkeye games. So, because I'm a good grandson, I'm a Hawkeye fan. -- Corey Taylor
I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I played for the New England Patriots in the NFL and professional lacrosse for the Boston Blazers. I had an injury, so I had to stop so I could heal. But when I was playing football, I wasn't making a lot of money; I wasn't a superstar. -- Brian J. White
I think as far as any kind of pressure on a football team or on an individual in professional sports really depends not only on that individual but the leadership they have on the team and the leadership they have on the coaching staff. A lot of times, they can divert some of those pressures off of the individual and off of the team. -- Jimmy Johnson
I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international. -- Jimmy Wales
I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level. -- Kurt Russell
Obviously the current approach on steroids both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working. -- Armand Hammer
I want to successfully make the transition from a life in professional sports to another life, without running into major upheavals. -- Oliver Kahn
Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
David Stern might be the smartest executive in the history of professional sports. His obsession with the Vagrant Kings is one of the strangest stories. -- R.E. Graswich
I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies. -- Seann William Scott
I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies. -- Seann William Scott
At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports -- Willie Mays
At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports. -- Willie Mays
There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both. -- James Reston, Jr.

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