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When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports. -- LeBron James
I think it's very important, even if you're not in organized sports, but just to be active, to be healthy. -- Allyson Felix
I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision. -- Jeff Greenfield
Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess. -- Alan Shepard
Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder -- John Green
Our country's growing obsession with organized sports isn't just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to gyms and fields, fewer kids are playing in our streets, parks, and playgrounds. -- Darell Hammond
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The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive of organized sports, a world of 'systems' and 'programs' and scripted plays, where reading a medical report requires a security clearance, and practice fields are patrolled like Guantanamo Bay. -- Jane Leavy
We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests. -- Darell Hammond
I do enjoy playing some sports, even though none of them are organized. I enjoy football most of all. -- Nathan Kress
When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare. -- Oren Lyons

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