One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
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.'
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.
Professional sports are something they can't control.
I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.
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.
Professional sports is a business.
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.
There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both.
Whatever fighting words you hear from the bargaining table, the reality is that with the new TV contract about to take effect and the incredibly lucrative ancillary revenue streams, both sides know we are on the verge of ushering in the most lucrative payday in the history of professional sports. The history of professional football is that nothing happens until the very last moment.
The NBA is the strongest professional sports league in the world. The league and the game is bigger than any one person, Michael Jordan included, and they always will be. I hope that today players, especially our young players, continue to recognize that simple fact. Nothing is more important than the game itself and the fans who support it.
There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.
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.
I want to successfully make the transition from a life in professional sports to another life, without running into major upheavals.
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.
The greatest owner in professional sports history is Eddie DeBartolo.
In all American professional sports you start on a certain level and you have to work your way up through a farm system. It's really the same in acting.
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