I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.
I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.
In sports teams win and individuals don't.
You know we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if its good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door.
If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent every counselor every teacher every professor every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.
When you're a kid growing up and you think you're gay you know that you're different you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.
In sports people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.
And I watch 'Saturday Night Live' religiously I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams.
I think it's good for sports cars to be united to be just one. I think it's good for the fans. When you have two different series fans don't know which way to go when you only have one I think it's good for the sport.
I remember when I was a little kid I was good at sports and I could jump off the high board. And then puberty hit and suddenly I was looking to boys for direction. I remember that as a great loss.
I've always been into sports and being physical.
I don't know much about sports.
When I did sports cartoons I used to uh go to fights.
So while you're an athlete and you have that platform what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible because there's going to be life after sports.
Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.
I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.
My dad is the reason I actually started watching wrestling. My dad was never big into sports we were all big into sports as kids and he'd go to our Little League games or whatever and not really know what was going on because he didn't know about sports but he knew about wrestling.