Professional sports are something they can't control.
I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.
I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.
The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.
There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'
Obviously the current approach on steroids both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working.
I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I played for the New England Patriots in the NFL and professional lacrosse for the Boston Blazers. I had an injury, so I had to stop so I could heal. But when I was playing football, I wasn't making a lot of money; I wasn't a superstar.
The greatest owner in professional sports history is Eddie DeBartolo.
There is certainly an underrepresentation of Asian Pacific Islanders in professional sports/athletics.
I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.
Which I think is great. I don't think there's nothing wrong with it. If you look in most professional sports, they're run by Jewish people. If you look at a lot of most successful corporations and stuff, more businesses, they're run by Jewish. It's not a knock, but they are some crafty people.
Professional sports is a business.
It's funny, you can get over the win pretty quick and get ready for the next opponent. When you lose, it just eats at you.... What could we have done? What should I have done? All those things. Just part of playing professional sports and sports in general.
You can't imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, "God, you treat those assholes like I'd like to treat them." And my question is, "Then why don't you?".
It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.
Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball
I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.
I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.
The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.
I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.
Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.
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