Quotes About Influence

I feel I am promoting the sport well in Australia with what I'm doing on an international level.

Pacquiao has generated a lot of positive press for our sport, and that is something no one can complain about.

Every sport has a 'guy' that personifies what the sport is about and almost creates what the sport is on his own.

I'm a huge fan of the Diaz boys. I'm a huge fan of what they've done for our sport. I feel like it's not about the rankings anymore. Sometimes the rankings are a little shaky.

I hope to be able to give my contribution to ensure that football remains the number one sport in the world.

Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.

I think that money has changed my sport.

I hate it when politics play too large part in the sport.

In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice.

The more people who come from abroad who played soccer and are brought up playing it and watching it, then come over to America and bring what they know and what they play, that's how the sport will grow.

I want to contribute to sport and the community in a positive way.

Some of us have been told what we want our whole lives. We've been told we should want to go out for sports or not. We should want a college education or a graduate degree or a particular career. We should want to date this person and not the other.

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

Look at the way sports, music and film have become driving forces of popular culture. Fashion is the fourth pillar.

Babe Ruth is an icon, in sports and in our society.

I can tell you, I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great parents. I really got some great input from there. They were entrepreneurial, middle-class business people.

Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

I didn't have a hero playing in sports that looked like me.

I don't cheer for anyone because my job is obviously more important, but the reason why I got into sports is because of my father. He's a giant sports fan and we are from New England, so he cheered for the Celtics and the Red Sox.

My grandmother is a huge Hawkeyes fan, so I, by proxy, have to be one. I'm more of a professional sports fan, and I've never been a huge college fan, but because of my grandmother, I've gotten into a lot of really good Hawkeye games. So, because I'm a good grandson, I'm a Hawkeye fan.

My grandfather was a big sports fan and so was my mom.

With me being a sportsman and being an icon who people know, if I can even send a little message across which will maybe help a lot of people, I'm going to do that.

My parents had this extraordinary circle of friends. My father would be photographing somebody every day, someone from the world of the arts, a politician, a musician, a sportsman.