Dirk Nowitzki Quotes

I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.

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• Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Law
  • Sports
  • Betting

• There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • American
  • Community
  • Sports

• I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Important
  • Game

• I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.

  

  Ed Skrein
  • People
  • Sports
  • Confidence

• I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Golf
  • Basketball
  • Tennis

• In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It's become a real sports event with sports fans now.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Real
  • Sports
  • Audience

• Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Game
  • Sports

• I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.

  

  Pancho Gonzales
  • Great
  • Important
  • Game

• I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Team

• I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • World
  • Different
  • Soccer

• Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Country
  • Best
  • Sports

• From Enve Composites to Bluehouse Skis, Utah companies are making breakthrough products for biking, winter sports, water sports and more.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Water
  • Sports
  • Winter

• The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Good
  • Family
  • Sports

• Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Different
  • Quality

• I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Me
  • Thought
  • Tennis

• I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Believe
  • Sports
  • Hockey

• When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • School
  • High
  • Sports

• We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fashion
  • Sports
  • Clothes

• First of all the name, and the color purple, I think those two things distinguish the Vikings as much as anything. You go anywhere in the country and say 'Vikings,' they know exactly where you are. You say 'Cardinals,' well, Cardinals who? There are a dozen Cardinals teams in the country in professional and amateur sports.

  

  Bud Grant
  • Country
  • Sports
  • Color

• Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

  

  Phil Simms
  • Sports

• I love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Sports
  • Tennis
  • Felt

• During the week I have workout every day from 9 to noon, then I get to rest, then back to the gym from 4:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M.

  

  Alicia Sacramone
  • Rest
  • Gym
  • Workout

• Medicine cabinets are dangerous. Those doors, man. They'll just spring on you like a ninja.

  

  Barry Lyga
  • Dangerous
  • Ninja
  • Medicine Cabinet

• I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.

  

  Dirk Nowitzki
  • Sports
  • Basketball
  • Tennis