The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.
I'm a big sports fan in general.
Sports teams people who follow sports teams religion churches work - any company I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.
I think money in general hurts all sports.
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.
As a result of Title IX and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had women's sports have arrived.
I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.
Americans' addiction to sports with the NFL at the top is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
I mean I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast vast community as one can imagine.
It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.
Acting the arts in general is a magnet for the wounded of society.
Every society all government and every kind of civil compact therefore is or ought to be calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles or control?
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
Most of them are pretty down records pretty unhappy pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.
I would argue that we have a generation of young people particularly minorities who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society.