athletic spectacle Quotes

The NBA is a crazy place.

What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?

The marathon is like a bullfight.

The game is choreographed; it is mental, it is physical, it is a battle. People can feel those hits when they are in the stadium, you feel them and you see the velocity of the players.

Any fight that Floyd Mayweather is in is going to be entertaining, regardless. People come to see an icon, a living legend, a superstar.

Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fascinated with soaring armpits.

In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.

Wrestling is an art form. I don't worry about those who don't get it; I worry about satisfying those who do.

Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

I love the Olympics. I love the idea of something happening every four years. I've always had love for Bulgaria, and I've always been a Bulgarian. That's also really part of why I want to play it. I know it's tough for the calendar, but at the same time, it's the Olympics.