“Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.” SportsSuccessfulRecordsFootballFlowTrackCreditChiefsExecutivesOfficersTrack RecordPro FootballCommissionersChief Executives Author:Pete Rozelle
“The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.” WayRunningEnergySportsRaceManagementPreparedTrackBlowDebtCompetitorsOxygenMarathonStrategic Author:Frank Shorter
“Especially with sports cars, when you have got so many cars on the track with various degrees of competitiveness, then something will happen. It's the nature of racing, the law of averages. If you want to be a front-runner then you are going to have to push very hard, and collisions can happen.” IfsWantHardHappensLawSportsCarFrontsDegreesAverageTrackVariousRacingRunnersCollisionCompetitivenessSports CarsLaw Of Averages Author:Allan McNish
“It is a testament to the fundamental honesty of football that Israel, with nothing to play for, overcame Russia in Tel Aviv on Saturday. The sport has its faults, but this basic trust is the reason Wembley holds 80,000 and could take more and the track and field venue for the London Olympics will be reduced after the event to the same capacity as the home of Wigan Athletic.” ReasonPlayHomeSportsEventsHonestyFieldsFootballCapacityFundamentalsFaultsTrackIsraelLondonRussiaManagersSoccerOlympicsTestamentSaturdayAthleticChairmanVenuesTrack And FieldLondon OlympicsWigan Author:Martin Samuel
“In the space of less than seven days, I attended a track meet in Boston, flew from there to Bowling Green for the National Jaycees, then to Rochester for the blind, Buffalo for another track meet, New York to shoot a film called The Black Athlete, Miami for Ford Motor Company, back up to New York for 45 minutes to deliver a speech, then into L. A. for another the same night.” FilmNightSportsBlackSpaceCompanyMinutesNew YorkSpeechBlindGreenSevenAthleteTrackBostonMotorFlewMiamiBowlingBuffaloSeven DaysRochesterFord Motor Author:Jesse Owens
“Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.” CountrySportsHalfCrossesTrackTrack And FieldSubstitutionCross Country RunningTrack RunningRunning TrackMotivational Cross Country RunningCross Country MotivationalInspirational TrackRunning FunnyHalf TimeFunny Cross Country RunningTrack Team Author:Chuck Norris
“I'm a very bad impersonator so I can't even remember if I've ever done a sports person. I mean, I think I was Bruce Jenner once but I don't think I said anything in the sketch. I was just sitting there in a like a bronze tracksuit. No dialogue. They don't trust me with dialogue.” IfsThinkingMeanPersonsSaidI CanDoneRememberSportsSittingTrackDialogueSuitsTrust MeDon't TrustBronzeImpersonators Author:Will Forte
“Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?” DoeSportsAbsolutesAthleteTrackPolite Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“What track needs to figure out: how to engage us between the races. Instead, the entire off-the-track conversation is about doping. This is how you kill a sport.” NeedsSportsRaceFiguresConversationTrackDoping Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am.” SchoolFallThreeSportsHoursFootballBasketballSpringAccountsWinterAthleteTrackWho I AmNutsAfter SchoolWinter To Spring Author:Terry Crews
“Athletics is a great sport with many different events and athletes come in all shapes and sizes. I'm one of the smallest athletes on the track. They call me the 'pocket rocket'.” DifferentSportsEventsShapesAthleteSizeTrackPocketsCall MeSmallestRocketsAthleticsGreat Sports Author:Jenny Meadows
“The Showdown is a great way to bring attention to these historic Virginia tracks where many NASCAR drivers cut their teeth in stock car racing, including myself. Tracks like South Boston and Langley are the heart of the sport and draw a great crowd to our Showdown events.” WayHeartSportsAttentionCuttingCarEventsDrawsSouthIncludingTrackCrowdsTeethDriversRacingHistoricBostonVirginiaNascarCar RacingShowdownsStock Car Racing Author:Denny Hamlin
“I never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me. That's what I do and it's what I love, but I think by having other things I'm passionate about and interested in, it helped me to come back. It helped me to have renewed love for the sport by being able to step away and then come back.” ThinkingImportantAbleSportsStepsPassionateTrack Author:Allyson Felix
“[At nine years old] I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian.” KnowsYearsMightCareWantedSportsGrowing UpGrowingBasketballSummerTrackWarmNineVarietySoccerSoftballNine YearsOlympian Author:Elana Meyers
“Growing up in the sport, I've been able to separate what happens on the track with what happens away from the track. That track is totally different. I'm not the same person when I put that helmet one.” PersonsDifferentHappensAbleSportsGrowing UpGrowingTrackHelmet Author:Trevor Bayne