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I actually used to be a front for the largest national sports-betting syndicate in America. -- Ashton Kutcher
I think Philly is arguably the best sports town - football town - in America. -- Ron Jaworski
The great thing about America, what I've loved about it, is how sports-friendly it is. In America, sports are respected and loved. -- Eric Braeden
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
For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America. -- Elle Macpherson
When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me! -- Indra Nooyi
That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day. -- Florence Griffith Joyner
I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet. -- Claudio Reyna
I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company. -- Timothy Ferriss
I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company. -- Timothy Ferriss
American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though. -- Noel Gallagher
In the field of outdoor sports, the American boy is easily capable of devising his own amusements, and until some proof is adduced that baseball is not his invention, I protest against this systematic effort to rob him of his dues. -- John Montgomery Ward
In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole. -- Maurice Greene
I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different. -- Hunter S. Thompson
As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year's Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout the world offered predictions on who would win medals in the major sports. Not a single publication gave the American men's hockey team a chance against the world powers. -- Don Yaeger
Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat. -- Hampton Sides
At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone. -- Pat Gillick
I receive huge support from Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated. Likewise I feel I have a great affinity with the American sports fans. I play most of my golf in the U.S. nowadays and I am incredibly proud to have won the U.S. Open and U.S. PGA Championship in the last two years. -- Rory McIlroy
I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did. -- George Will
Jeep is America's only real sports car. -- Enzo Ferrari
Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives. -- Elon Musk
Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors. -- Azim Premji
AR-15s, in particular, are often called America's gun. They're some of the most popular rifles in the country, especially when it comes to sports shooting. -- Scott Simon
I grew up in team sports. I think I understand the psyche of America. I think when children sign up to play, it's got to be team. -- Billie Jean King
When I grew up, all of our news, weather, and sports came from America. The people where I grew up rooted for American teams as opposed to Canadian teams. -- Lori Lansens

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