The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

I think professional sports football to use it as an example it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money it's a whole other level.

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons so I really came very quickly in all sports.

It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested Crystal Palace being one but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional college or international.

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.