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.

I told another ESPN friend here I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.

Competition is the spice of sports but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

I am so grateful to everybody that supports the Sheckler Foundation and gives us the ability to continue to help kids and injured action sports athletes.

We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.

Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.

Over the years I've enjoyed working for WFAN and MSG - two sports giants in the industry. There couldn't be a better fit due to the long-standing history both entities have had with NY sports.

When Michael Jordan quit I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.

The Women's Sports Foundation holds a unique position in developing opportunities for girls and women of all abilities to be active whether recreationally or competitively and I'm excited to help lead the organization to impact even more lives. It is an honor to continue to build the legacy created by Billie Jean King and all of our leaders.

I'm in the perfect position. It's a sports position and a political position where I can help better the lives of athletes around the world.

For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care.

I mean sports are big big big business.

I'm a huge sports fan.

The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.

I grew up playing sports football basketball baseball everything and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

I'm not a big sports fan but I love it when they 'slam dunk.' That's sexy.

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.

We want to encourage the young ones to learn and get some confidence in sports. It's fun and keeps you active and moving.

My heart lies in music and acting however my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.

Playing in New England and the Boston area the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well they'll let you know so I know it's not something that they take lightly.

Sports and politics don't mix.

Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.

By the time I was 8 years old sports had pretty much taken over my life.