I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.
When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.
I would encourage people to participate in sports. You don't have to dream of being an Olympic or a professional athlete.
Honestly, I feel like we are a walking protest. The fact that we're women professional athletes says that in and of itself. We've been feeling the inequality; we've been struggling with pay equality or whatever it is, or sexism in sports.
It is surprising how many professional athletes, along with their families and friends, are gaga over movie and music stars, and the reverse is true with entertainers and sports stars.
I think the American sports culture has the idea that professional athletes need so much, like flying private planes, which obviously we don't, but that's the American sports culture when they think of the NFL and the NBA.
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
Playing professional sports, it's important to eat healthy and take care of your body. In the offseason, rest is really important to me.
I'm getting more and more bored with professional sports, but I still watch.
In professional sports, you live in the moment, and that's what I love about it.
You can't just be anyone who is off the streets and come do what we do. You have to train, and there has to be something within you. You have to have athletic ability... What we do is 100 percent athletic. I feel like it's one of the top athletic programs out there when you consider professional sports.
That's why esports is so awesome: it's just like professional sports.
It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.
I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
In professional sports, things can change quickly. You keep your balance. You keep your perspective, and things will work out.
Expanding Massachusetts' developing gaming industry to include wagering on professional sports is an opportunity for Massachusetts to invest in local aid while remaining competitive with many other states pursuing similar regulations.
That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
I think that in all aspects of the game, especially in professional sports but specifically in hockey, we want to grow the game.
In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.