I used to play football for Real Madrid and to be on stage for two hours I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.

It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.

When a sports movie really works it gets you on all levels because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!

There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

You just let your lower self go and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing the people yelling things at each other and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music and that's what this is.

If you want a free society teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers and protects its weak.

Once the fabric of a just society is undone it takes generations to weave it back together.

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture society class nation one belongs no matter how normal moral or mature one takes oneself to be.

When life takes me on a new journey I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career and I played all the songs that are referenced in ''94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monster hit. It totally takes me back to those days and it makes me smile every time I hear it.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

I don't dare postulate about science but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything what science cannot know cannot be real.

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's on its best day is a crude art. We make mistakes I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

If you start any large theory such as quantum mechanics plate tectonics evolution it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.