Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.
I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.
The biggest thing is getting the kid in a kart - they have to buy it and that's the biggest thing. You can go to a sporting store and buy a basketball for 30 bucks or a football for 30 bucks. You go buy a go-kart and that's 300 bucks. What are you going to get? A basketball or a go-kart?
...buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open.
I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.
For a long time, companies ignored the fact that 80 percent of sporting goods are sold to the casual consumer.
When I was little, my father used to sell guns and ammo at a sporting goods store, but I always told everyone he was an arms dealer, because it sounded more exciting.
Sporting goods sales have suffered because Americans have become too sedentary.
Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren't black, Spanish, or a white freak.
With each new pair of shoes, each new wrist-watch, each new Walkman or moisture-wicking wonder-material that runners put on, the sport became more alluring to me and to millions of others.
When I got out of college and signed a contract to play pro football in the USFL, the first thing I bought was a Remington 1100 shotgun and a Remington .30-06.
One of the turning points of my life was when I got my first bait-casting outfit.
I worked at Big 5 Sporting Goods, selling shoes and stuff like that, for a couple of summers.
Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.
A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.
Puma is a brand deeply rooted in sporting lifestyle.
I'm a sporting goods guy.
I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe I could sell them if I need the money.
I really wanted a tennis dress. My parents told me that if I played, they would buy me one. I was like, 'Hey, I'll try it.'
I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the fins of fish. They're very efficient. They are so beautiful, a pair is in the Museum of Modern Art. The set I have are ruby red. I call them my ruby flippers.
It's never like I go sneaker shopping just to get shoes for a hoop game.
