I'm a bit biased with my love for Kyle Long. I would say he's the best bald guard in football.
I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.
As a kid, you'd look at all these guys in the NFL and almost idolize them.
It's part of the juice of sports that you tend to find certain sports figures that you cheer on from other cities and others that you're a bit skeptical about.
I remember me being that kid growing up. Me being the kid that grew up going to games and being a ball boy and wanting a high five from Blake Griffin or the other players.
Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams. Some of the best relationships I ever had were with Boston athletes that I never even met.
I should point out that I have a picture of Asbel Kiprop as the screensaver on my phone. Is that embarrassing?
I can't walk in an airport, walk into a gym, where the kids in the gym don't come to me and ask me about Allen and tell me he's their favorite player of all time. And everywhere I go in airports, people look at me, and they, 'You're Allen's coach.'
LeBron James has always been the biggest one - I just love to watch him. I'm a big fan, and he's a big inspiration of mine.
For me, it's, like, no secret that Serena is my favorite.
Michael Vick is my favorite player.
I want to meet that Kerri Strug.
Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.
I'm a huge sports guy, so getting messages from guys I grew up watching and following - Scott Van Pelt, Chris Paul, Charles Barkley, Adam Schefter - was really special.
I was a Packers fan growing up, and just to see the way he played the game and how excited he was about it all the time, he's my favorite.
The greatest hockey player who ever lived: Bobby Orr, and I love him.
Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.
I've got a lot of favorite golfers.
I'm much more starstruck by athletes than I am by actors, and I think I saw Kobe Bryant at a basketball party, and I just kind of froze. He's monstrous.
I've always been a huge Oladipo fan.
Everyone probably says this, but my favorite athlete is Tony Hawk. I'd really love to meet him.
Love that guy, and you can't say enough good things about Brandin Cooks.
Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that.
My son goes around shooting the basketball saying, 'Isaiah Thomas!'
I told Pedro this story: I used to wear a freakin' Pedro Martinez jersey because it had 'Martinez' on the back.
