Sports Quotes
In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result.
Where is women’s sports prominently displayed with the men? Tennis is the only thing I can think of.
Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the life of a footballer, and I guess that is true across most sports now.
What’s more important than who’s going to be the first black manager is who’s going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.
Don’t sell yourself short because without that you can’t go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can’t do anything else with that.
That’s the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.
I remember the day I met Cammi Granato, a former star on the U.S. women’s hockey team. We were at a Women’s Sports Foundation dinner in 1996, and she came over to introduce herself. She had watched the U.S. women’s soccer team win gold at the Atlanta Olympics and was hopeful the U.S. women’s hockey team could do the same.
I was a gymnast for 13 years, so I was heavy into sports.
Sports is the ultimate escape, the ultimate in reality programming. It’s true drama. You really don’t know what’s going to happen.
In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, ‘Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,’ the first thing I said was, ‘Lee, you can’t make a race horse out of a mule. I don’t want to do it.’ He said, ‘I didn’t ask you to make it; you work for me.’
I’m kind of the model that everyone thought would always be the Guess, ‘Sports Illustrated’ girl. Then, when I started to do high fashion stuff… people were like, ‘Oh, so we can have a girl with, like, thighs and a butt in a Tom Ford campaign. Cool.’