“We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.” CultureSportsFootballBasketballBaseballGolfWinterTennis Author:Michael Wilbon
“I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is, and also the most demanding....Basketball comes close, but it's a team sport and lacks tennis's primal mano a mano intensity. Boxing might come close- at least at the lighter weight divisions- but the actual physical damage the fighters inflict on each other makes it too concretely brutal to be really beautiful- a level of abstraction and formality (i.e., play) is necessary for a sport to possess true metaphysical beauty (in my opinion).” PlayMightBeautifulSportsLevelsOpinionTeamBasketballWeightFighterDamageTennisBoxingDivisionIntensitySubmitBrutalMetaphysicalAbstractionPrimalLightersReally BeautifulSports TeamFormalityPhysical Beauty Author:David Foster Wallace
“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.” KindYoungSportsBasketballFocusedAll KindsSoccerTennisHandball Author:Dirk Nowitzki
“People really don't care, in some ways, that you have a family. With a high profile job like I have, they just want you to win basketball games. You can do that and still keep your family together. I try the best I can to be at the basketball practices or tennis practices or recitals. In my first year at Dallas my (then 11-year old) son Avery Jr., said, "You know daddy, you're still the best coach in the NBA." I was like, "But I haven't won a playoff game yet." And he said, "That's okay. You're still my daddy." That makes you feel good.” PeopleKnowsWayWantFeelsTryingYearsFirstsSaidStillsI CanCareTogetherJobsGamesWinningCan DoPracticeHavensSonBasketballOkayDon't CareCoachesFeel GoodOur FamilyTennisNbaDaddyProfileDallasPlayoffsMake You Feel GoodBasketball GameHigh ProfileFamily TogetherBest CoachesRecitalsPlayoff Games Author:Avery Johnson
“I love being outside and feeling free, so I jog or ride my bike. Some days I play basketball or tennis.” PlayFeelingsLove IsBasketballTennisBike Author:Jennifer Hudson
“Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.” InspirationalFootballBasketballGolfTrackDenyTennisDominantAthleticAthletics Author:Jesse Jackson
“Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'” EndsPlayMinutesFootballBrotherMomLuckyBasketballBaseballBallsHeyMy BrotherTennisThe End Of The DayAnd At The End Of The DayAlways There For Me Author:Jimmy Connors
“My workout was playing other sports and I always played tennis, football, basketball, threw a baseball - I was always doing something to keep me active. That's how I kept my body going.” BodySportsFootballBasketballBaseballActiveTennisWorkout Author:Jack Nicklaus
“It's important for the young players to practice other ball games as well, basketball or table tennis. On the tennis court, you can improve your eye through a kind of overexertion.” WellsKindImportantEyeYoungGamesPracticePlayerBasketballBallsTablesCourtTennisBall GamesTennis CourtsTable Tennis Author:Rafael Nadal
“You can kick a ball into the net, throw a basketball into the net. Tennis is complicated. It'll make a lot of great athletes run the other way because they can't be successful initially.” WayRunningSuccessfulBasketballBallsAthleteComplicatedKicksTennisBeing SuccessfulGreat Athlete Author:Jim Courier
“I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.” InspirationalSportsBasketballIncludingVariousTennisBilliards Author:Yani Tseng
“Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a winning season in years. The table-tennis team, however, is undefeated.” YearsWinningTermTeamHavensFootballBasketballBaseballSeasonsTablesEdgesTennisRestraintAthleticFootball TeamIndomitableUndefeatedTennis TeamTable Tennis Author:Megan McCafferty