John Hodgman Quotes

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track, and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am today and even how I think today.

I come from a family of four brothers, so I like sports.

I would never tell anybody to give up hockey - the great sports we have here - basketball, lacrosse - rugby coming into its own - we've got so many great team sports, and I say hold on to them.

They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

Growing up, we played sports nonstop. I mean every single day. As soon I got done with breakfast, I was ready to go.

Too often athletes think there's these norms that I have to fit into and there are people that I have to please.

Everybody was pressuring me to play basketball, so I was like, 'OK, I'll do it.'

I have always been around sports my whole life.

I always have a problem liking things I'm told I should like.

I'm a rah, rah guy's guy. I like to talk about sports and put people in headlocks.

My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.

I think video games are a huge part of our society now. Having kids play baseball video games helps them understand and love the game. It could actually push them to get out there and play the game for real. That's great for the sport.

The mentality we have in India is not very sporting.

I played sports in high school and in college.

I enjoy sports, and love being involved in any outdoor sport from volleyball to softball. I'm not being immodest when I say I'm a natural athlete.

Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.

I don't like the trappings of stardom. I wear the shoes and the Dolce & Gabbana, because I'm told to. But I'm not trapped by it.

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.

I love sports and I love sports movies.