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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face. -- Tavi Gevinson
I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym. -- Nate Holland
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on. -- Lou Holtz
Kids tend to look up to sports figures and entertainers, probably more than they should, but I've tried to use that in a positive way. -- Warren Moon
When you're young, you need to be silly and be stupid and not be trying to do that when you're 40 in a red sports car. -- Gin Wigmore
I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey. -- Patrick Chan
We always try to reinterpret sport in an innovative, fashionable way, and when we do fashion, we're always trying to bring our sports heritage into the fashion world. -- Jochen Zeitz
I like a deep sports massage - a casual beating up. I try to get them whenever I can, usually more if I'm getting in shape for a role. -- Chris Pine
A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted. -- Matthew Barney
Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports. -- Jeff Garcia
People try to read a lot into what 'digital' means. It's just another platform. There are very attractive things that happen if you invest in content - movies, TV production, acquired series, specialty genres, digital distribution of our magazines, sports rights. -- Jeffrey Bewkes
I wasn't into sports when I was younger. I was one of those kids who always tried to get a note from the doctor to say I had a cold so I didn't have to go play hockey in bad weather and be miserable. -- Eliza Doolittle
I started, actually, in journalism when I was - well. I started at the 'New York Times' when I was 18 years old, actually, but really got into journalism when I was 15 years old and had started a sports magazine which was trying to become a national sports magazine. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
I tried golf for a while, but I wasn't very good at it, so I didn't play a lot of golf. I enjoy all sports, not just football. I like basketball, baseball, and I got into the World Cup. So really, sports in general are my life, and football specifically. -- John Madden
I definitely try to live my life in a very fearless manner, but there are no other sports that you jump from a three-story building and land on your hands! Diving is a lot like life. You just have to trust in what you know and allow it to happen. -- Keshia Knight Pulliam
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
My son is trying to be a sports writer, and my daughter is a college student. She wants to be a comedy writer, and she's at film school. I discouraged both of them early on from getting involved in Starbucks. I didn't think it would be fair; plus, they didn't have any interest anyway. -- Howard Schultz
I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff. -- Zosia Mamet
One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something. -- Michael Shannon
I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control. -- Gregg Sulkin
Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports. -- Joan Cusack

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