“The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.” SportsCommunityTeamSports TeamIndescribable Author:Wendell Pierce
“Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.” PeopleYearsTogetherSportsCommunityAchievementThirdsCelebrateOccasionsTennisContributionHonourReceivingMedalAustralianRecognise Author:Samantha Stosur
“You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.” SportsCommunityFranceGermanyVillageMagnificentFacilityHollandPristine Author:Graham Taylor
“In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.” WellsMightSportsCommunityChallengesPrideResponseStrangerRepresentationClans Author:John Thorn
“I truly believe my job starts the minute I leave the baseball field. Going out and catching ground balls and hitting, that's a job, and that's what I've wanted to do ever since I was a kid. But when you think about leaving that field, that's when the job and the demands really start. In New York, Seattle, every city. The community, the media, business stuff. You have to stay on a narrow path.” ThinkingBelieveKidsWantedJobsStuffSportsCommunityCitiesPathMinutesMediaNew YorkFieldsDemandBaseballBallsLeavingHittingGoing OutCatchingSeattleNarrow PathBaseball Field Author:Alex Rodriguez
“Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.” FunSportsCommunityEventsCoupleMetsFoundationGood ThingsDinnerHaving FunHanging OutGuiseMia Author:Brandi Chastain
“It's nice to be able to support programs like 5 Hole Threads' in our communities to keep more kids involved in sports. The Life lessons that are learned from being a teammate are so valuable. All kids deserve the chance to experience that.” KidsAbleSportsCommunityChanceSupportNiceInvolvedLessonsTrainingDeserveProgramValuableHolesLife LessonThreadTeammateNhlOur Community Author:Dan Ellis
“If we set out with... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of permanent blessings to the community. If on the contrary,... the Constitution is slighted, or explained away, upon every frivolous pretext, the future of government will be feeble, distracted and arbitrary. The rights of the subjects will be the sport of every party vicissitude. There will be no settled rule of conduct, but everything will fluctuate with the alternate prevalency of contending factions.” IfsGovernmentSpiritSportsCommunityPartyRightsSubjectsBlessingConstitutionRegardContraryPermanentToneAcquireProductiveArbitraryDistractedFactionsFrivolousPretextVicissitudesContendingSlighted Author:Alexander Hamilton
“Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active.” WayChildrenKidsSportsCommunityActiveYour ChildrenNeighborhoodRecreationCommunity Centers Author:Lee Haney
“From an athlete's perspective, to cancel the Olympics in regards to the threats would be absolutely devastating - especially since the Olympics - it's really about people meeting together through sports and putting aside their countries' differences for that time.” PeopleCountryWisdomRealityWould BeTogetherPoliticsSportsCommunityLeadershipDifferencesViolencePolicyPerspectiveEthicsRegardStrategyThreatMeetingsUnityHuman RightsAthleteTerrorismIdeologyForeign PolicyOlympicsDiplomacyCivilityDisobedienceCivil Disobedience Author:Brian Boitano
“Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.” LittlesPlayPoliticalGirlPoliticsSportsCommunityLevelsPartyFamilyBoysGenerationsTalentHuman NatureSeriousExpressionMomIdeologySoccerFree SpeechPolitical PartiesAthleticThat GirlKindergartenPartisanship Author:Ann Coulter
“Year after year, an ideological and economic barrier hardened between our two countries, meanwhile, the Cuban exile community in the United States made enormous contributions to our country, in politics, in business, culture and sports.” YearsMadeTwoCountryStatesCulturePoliticsSportsCommunityUnitedUnited StatesEconomicEnormousOur CountryContributionBarriersExileIdeologicalCubanHardenedTwo Countries Author:Barack Obama
“The Olympics are too powerful. I hate sports - they generate so much nationalism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, economic exploitation, displacement of communities to build worthless bankrupt stadiums.” HateSportsCommunityPowerfulEconomicRacismI HateNationalismSexismExploitationOlympicsWorthlessStadiumsHomophobiaDisplacement Author:Terre Thaemlitz
“As a graphic artist, my job on a local paper was creating the advertising as well as working as a journalist on sports and community issues. There are many more jobs I've done in my day, I can't remember them all.” WellsI CanDoneJobsRememberArtistSportsCommunityIssuesPaperCreatingLocalsAdvertisingJournalistGraphicGraphic Artist Author:Franny Armstrong
“Remarks such as 'great Australian', 'larger than life' are sometimes used where they are not appropriate. But in the case of Kerry Packer both of those descriptions are entirely appropriate. He was a great Australian, he was a larger than life character and in so many ways he left his mark on the Australian community over a very long career in business, particularly in the media and also that other great passion of his, Australian sport” WayLongSometimesCharacterUsedPassionLeftSportsCommunityBusinessCareersCasesMediaMarkAppropriateDescriptionAustraliaRemarksAustralianLarger Than LifeGreat PassionLong CareersPackers Author:John Howard
“You've got this world, these pathologists that are, day in and day out, taking apart bodies, coming up with theories about how they died and how to better serve the community. At the same time these people have lives outside and families and my character in particular, he has a fiance and things are going well for him, so you've got to show that nice warm compassionate side at the same time you've got to show the steely, icy cool of a doctor. Not only that, but a doctor who gets a bit of a God complex and starts killing people for sport.” PeopleWorldWellsCharacterShowsBodyBitsSportsSidesCommunityNiceThis WorldParticularTheoryDoctorsDiedComplexesKillingWarmCompassionateDoctor WhoIcyFianceGod Complex Author:Milo Ventimiglia
“I was doing community theater, and I was always interested in acting, but I was also interested in sports. I was interested in a lot of things. I was a pretty normal guy. I wasn't like a guy who grew up in a dark theater watching movies.” GuySportsCommunityDarkActingGrewNormalGrew UpTheater Author:Willem Dafoe
“I've got some other great teammates like Dallas Robinson and Johnny Quinn on the men's side who have been tremendous at showing Christ's love. It's not just the US teams, but there are also many believers from the international community including several from the Canadian team. We hope to grow Christianity throughout our sport.” MenHas BeensGrowsSportsSidesChristCommunityChristianityTeamIncludingInternationalBelieverTeammateInternational CommunityDallasQuinn Author:Elana Meyers
“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