“Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated” ShouldBelieveImportantActionCoursesGamesI BelieveSportsResponsibilityClearIntegrityProtectBasketballApproachLet MeObjectivesCompromisePreservesLeagueNbaSunlightBettingSports BettingNew ApproachCommissioners Author:Adam Silver
“When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.” WayActionSpeakSportsStepsStageNewsEdgesEnormousThrownHeadlinesLiving OnEvery StepLife Or DeathWords You SpeakLiving On The EdgeEvery Step You Take Author:Boris Becker
“The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it’s going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they’re going to be.” ImportantActionSportsSubjectsImportant ThingsPhotographerAnticipation Author:Lawrence Schiller
“Be an all-out, not a hold-out.” ActionSports Book:You Can If You Think You Can Source: You Can If You Think You Can
“Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work proper so that he is at no time independent of one technique or another. In sport the citizen of the technical society finds the same spirit, criteria, morality, actions and objectives in short, all the technical laws and customs which he encounters in office or factory.” ActionLawSpiritSportsCitizensMoralityOfficeTraditionIndependentWorkersFinishedTechniqueObjectivesEncountersReliefCarrieCustomsDistractionFactoriesCriteriaDeviation Author:Jacques Ellul
“Some critics of racing witlessly claim that spectators only attend to see someone die. This is utter and complete nonsense. I have been at numerous races where death is present. When a driver dies, the crowd symbolically dies, too. They come to see action at the brink: ultimate risk taking and the display of skill and bravery embodied in the sport's immortals like Nuvolari, Foyt, and thousands of others who operate at the ragged edge.” Has BeensActionDiesSportsRaceRiskSkillsUltimateClaimsBraveryCriticsEdgesCrowdsNonsenseDriversRacingDisplaySpectatorsRisk-takingRagged Author:Brock Yates
“I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.” ArtWould BeActionFormSportsLifestyleOffensiveSkateboardingCategorizationSkateboarder Author:Tony Hawk
“You feel as if you're not living a full life. Which, of course, is why - it's my theory about why so many people who are heavily into computers are also into extreme sports and S&M. It's because their bodies are crying out for some kind of action.” PeopleIfsFeelsKindBodyActionCoursesSportsCryTheoryComputerExtremesFull LifeExtreme Sports Author:Brian Eno
“Contrary to popular belief, there are actually quite a few guys in the action sports community that have faith and are Christians.” ActionChristianGuyBeliefSportsCommunityContraryHave FaithContrary To Popular Belief Author:Nick Goepper