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The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports. -- Nate Holland
Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing. -- Geoffrey Canada
Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.' -- Paul Pierce
I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games. -- Jason Dohring
You've got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you're involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life. -- Paul Allen
I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things. -- Rachel Stevens
The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people. -- Avery Brundage
We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been sublimated in sports, photorealistic video games, film and literature. -- Kenneth Oppel
The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't. -- Greg Louganis
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
Madden' is all about speed, and the Falcons have it on both sides of the ball. I love playing sports games. I played my PlayStation so much, I pretty much wore it out. -- Carl Crawford
The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that. The Olympics are the most important race. They're each four years, and everybody wants to show their best performance. -- Tina Maze
There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after. -- Patrick Chan
Global sports tournaments have a range of benefits that go far beyond the games themselves. They can transform the image of a country or a region. They bring people together and reveal new possibilities to a nation's youth. -- Richard Attias
J.J. Watt is larger than life and Houston's newest sports hero, in every sense of the word. He is a guy who spends NFL Fridays at high school football games and actively seeks out those in need of his kindness. -- Hannah Storm
The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves. -- Jeffrey Kluger
I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move. -- Landon Donovan
We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
My dad is the reason I actually started watching wrestling. My dad was never big into sports; we were all big into sports as kids, and he'd go to our Little League games or whatever and not really know what was going on, because he didn't know about sports, but he knew about wrestling. -- John Cena
Trip Hawkins - and this was the early 1980s - was saying there's going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they're going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game. -- John Madden
All sports are games of inches. -- Dick Ritger
I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports. -- Vince Carter
I'm obviously into the sports. The NFL games and the NHL games. -- Jeremy Roenick
The Olympic Games are always in the head of every sports athlete. We work for that. -- Tina Maze
I'm such a huge sports video game fan. These games are getting so realistic, it's amazing. -- Mehcad Brooks
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. -- Ernest Hemingway
Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games. -- Ernest Hemingway
I was always into sports games. Never really played anything else. I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam. -- Chris Paul
I like watching sports. I like going to sports games and that's kind of my life during football season for sure. -- Kris Allen
When you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, 'What happened?'...That's the beauty of sports. -- Tony Parker
Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing. -- Gay Talese
The Sooners are my religion. I've been back to watch the games several times. I'm into all their sports. I'm a tremendous fan. -- Joshua Morrow
Sports are, and should be, a joy. And it delights me that the joy I felt through the years of broadcasting games was projected onto the audience. -- Marty Glickman
The X-Games - I watch that; I'm not impressed. That's white dudes' desperation. They're running out of sports. They gotta find something that black dudes won't touch. -- Godfrey

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