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I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.
It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.
If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.
As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.
I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn’t very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.
I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.
Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.
In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.
I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.
I’m not that clued up on the American sports yet, really.