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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.

The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time.

Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity.

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.