Chicago is an amazing place for sports.
There were a lot of places, including Los Angeles, that didn't have major league baseball. There were other really large cities that had no major league teams, but at least they had college football.
Growing up in Harlem, I was always in the parks playing ball.
L.A. is a city that has given me great support for skating.
Summertime where guys played pickup, we got a thing in Philly called Summertime Rec. In that summertime you can't duck no smoke. You can't duck nobody in that basketball vibes.
All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
Skateboarding is a part of Hip-Hop culture. I think it's the fifth element of Hip-Hop - emceeing, deejaying, b-boying, graffiti, and skateboarding. Skateboarders live and die on the streets. It's expression - it's everything that Hip-Hop is.
I started playing futsal in the favela because it was the closest pitch to where we lived. I think it was good for me, playing in a small space like that. You have to think and act quickly.
I feel like when I play, I play tough. That's the New York in me. That's the street tournaments.
Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.
I want to be in such a basketball city like New York.
City have been working throughout the years to mount competitive teams and pursue titles.
There were only two things you did in New York City, Queens to be exact, music or sports.
The interesting thing about basketball is that it is played recreationally all over the world in playgrounds where people shoot hoops. Perhaps it is because of this that the look of the game seems to have been able to cross over into streetwear more easily than that of some sports that are confined to more specialist arenas.
Everybody plays basketball in D.C. Not on a team. Just around the way. Anywhere. I actually loved basketball.
Me and my mates go free running all the time. It's not my mum's favourite sport. I've probably jumped four metres on to grass and two metres between buildings. It's nothing like you see on the Internet, with guys jumping off skyscrapers, but it's fun.
I grew up playing basketball on the streets of New York City, and it was very, very rough, and I started playing in the NBA in the same way.
I started out playing football in the streets, playing barefoot like all the boys there - we didn't have the money for football boots.
All you have to do is drive by the empty tennis courts and basketball courts and compare them to the skate parks... c'mon people, get with the program - the future is now!
But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.
People should have access to sports, especially in cities like Mumbai, where we have a shortage of space.
There were so many things associated with it in terms of music and fashion, and a different way of thinking that, for me, skateboarding represented so much of what I wanted to do with my life at an early age.
In England, you have stadiums in the middle of the city.
I've known Larry Clark since I was fourteen. I've always skateboarded in Manhattan. Larry got into the scene in the early '90s, taking pictures and skating with us.
