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We started playing basketball late and obviously we are trying to change that by building basketball courts, the potential is here and now we are all trying to make sure kids can start playing basketball at an earlier age and obviously give them that edge. – Bismack Biyombo	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The foundation of our game is fair play, and we must take the required steps to reinforce the importance of this principle, this review will allow the Confederation to take the next step towards improving refereeing across the region. – Alfredo Hawit	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I liked the idea of putting another tournament on the schedule near the end of the year to give Justin Rose as good a chance as possible of winning the Race to Dubai... i missed the cut by a shot in 2011 but I loved the course. – Justin Rose	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This bid is about more than sport for us... it's about our future, almaty 2022 is directly aligned to our country's long-term strategy... which was designed to position Kazakhstan as one of the top global economies by 2050. – Andrey Kryukov	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Kazakhstan has the financial strength to deliver a great Winter Games without spending tens of billions of dollars, almaty 2022 will serve as a model for future host cities and prove that similar developing nations can host the Games affordably and sustainably. – Mayor Akhmetzhan Yessimov	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The ovation from the crowd that first at-bat was obviously special, i think it made my at-bat that much harder. I settled down. It was nice to give us the lead and win a game. – Troy Tulowitzki	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
While it is only normal for different groups to raise specific interests around major sporting events, we believe in the Olympic Charter's vision to protect the power of sport from political influence. – Bid Committee	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If the IOC awards the games to Beijing, it sends a signal, a message to the entire world, that it's the right thing to encourage a dictatorship which violates human rights blatantly on a larger and larger scale. – Rose Tang	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We want to shame the Chinese government and the IOC into not allowing these Games to happen. – Padma Dolma	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I am very disappointed by the NFL’s decision to uphold the four-game suspension against me, i did nothing wrong, and no one in the Patriots organization did either. – Tom Brady	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I am disappointed that I won't be playing in Montreal because it's a tournament and a city that I really enjoy and has incredible fans, my family and I have always received first-class treatment from tournament director, Eugene Lapierre, and his team and I hope to be back in the future. – Roger Federer	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I will fly there Vitaly Mutko to meet with them( FIBA) and take care of the situation. You can't deal with Russia like this, we will go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne. I don't see anything that could get in the way of this. Yes the situation is not very nice, but there is no interference. – Vitaly Mutko	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Unfortunately, I will not be defending my World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational title, best of luck to all the competitors and I look forward to returning in 2016. – The Briton	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
During this last half-century or so, FIFA has only had two presidents, recent events force the supreme governing body of world soccer to turn over a new leaf and rethink its governance. – Michel Platini	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This was a very personal, carefully considered decision, one in which I weighed up the future of soccer alongside my own future. – Michel Platini	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Winter sports is about to take off in China and we have great potential, i could show you a bunch of numbers, how many people and how big it will be... but the most important thing is that people have the desire and passion. – Yao Ming	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It really impacted an entire generation, an entire country of people in how to embrace sports and sports activity, it impacted on our soul and the rest of the world and. I believe 2022 will be very similar. – Yao Ming	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think for this question, there is no perfect answer for that, even in this world there is no country that can say that they totally have no human rights problems. And just like Rome was not built in one day that problem can not be solved just like that. – Yao Ming	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's fantastic to see the changes. – Rainer Kampling	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's frustrating not being able to win golf tournaments, not really being there in contention very often... but I know how close it feels and I know I just need a couple of shots here and there and it turns the tide, people don't really realize how close it is between a person who is winning( a tournament) and a person missing the cut. – Tiger Woods	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I didn't think that it would take this long because I thought I would have my short game earlier, you can cover up a lot of different things when you're chipping and putting well. I didn't have it at the beginning of the year... so that process of scoring has taken a lot longer because of that. But things are starting to come together. – Tiger Woods	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's officially summer break, and the only day I can eat whatever I want, so that calls for pancakes and bacon. – The Briton	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Akron is not a good course for me so I probably won't play more than three or four holes in practice but I'll spend a day on the putting green on the Wednesday, sometimes you stand over a putt, you visually see the line and you hit the line. It sounds silly to say but you just don't have that feeling all the time. – Ian Poulter	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I'm not disappointed how I played because I thought I played good but I'm disappointed I didn't hole my fair share of putts, it's back to the drawing board now, I've got to try to visually see my lines. – Ian Poulter	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

We started playing basketball late and obviously we are trying to change that by building basketball courts, the potential is here and now we are all trying to make sure kids can start playing basketball at an earlier age and obviously give them that edge.

– Bismack Biyombo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The foundation of our game is fair play, and we must take the required steps to reinforce the importance of this principle, this review will allow the Confederation to take the next step towards improving refereeing across the region.

– Alfredo Hawit

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I liked the idea of putting another tournament on the schedule near the end of the year to give Justin Rose as good a chance as possible of winning the Race to Dubai... i missed the cut by a shot in 2011 but I loved the course.

– Justin Rose

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This bid is about more than sport for us... it's about our future, almaty 2022 is directly aligned to our country's long-term strategy... which was designed to position Kazakhstan as one of the top global economies by 2050.

– Andrey Kryukov

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Kazakhstan has the financial strength to deliver a great Winter Games without spending tens of billions of dollars, almaty 2022 will serve as a model for future host cities and prove that similar developing nations can host the Games affordably and sustainably.

– Mayor Akhmetzhan Yessimov

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The ovation from the crowd that first at-bat was obviously special, i think it made my at-bat that much harder. I settled down. It was nice to give us the lead and win a game.

– Troy Tulowitzki

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

While it is only normal for different groups to raise specific interests around major sporting events, we believe in the Olympic Charter's vision to protect the power of sport from political influence.

– Bid Committee

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If the IOC awards the games to Beijing, it sends a signal, a message to the entire world, that it's the right thing to encourage a dictatorship which violates human rights blatantly on a larger and larger scale.

– Rose Tang

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We want to shame the Chinese government and the IOC into not allowing these Games to happen.

– Padma Dolma

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I am very disappointed by the NFL’s decision to uphold the four-game suspension against me, i did nothing wrong, and no one in the Patriots organization did either.

– Tom Brady

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I am disappointed that I won't be playing in Montreal because it's a tournament and a city that I really enjoy and has incredible fans, my family and I have always received first-class treatment from tournament director, Eugene Lapierre, and his team and I hope to be back in the future.

– Roger Federer

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I will fly there Vitaly Mutko to meet with them( FIBA) and take care of the situation. You can't deal with Russia like this, we will go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne. I don't see anything that could get in the way of this. Yes the situation is not very nice, but there is no interference.

– Vitaly Mutko

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Unfortunately, I will not be defending my World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational title, best of luck to all the competitors and I look forward to returning in 2016.

– The Briton

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

During this last half-century or so, FIFA has only had two presidents, recent events force the supreme governing body of world soccer to turn over a new leaf and rethink its governance.

– Michel Platini

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This was a very personal, carefully considered decision, one in which I weighed up the future of soccer alongside my own future.

– Michel Platini

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Winter sports is about to take off in China and we have great potential, i could show you a bunch of numbers, how many people and how big it will be... but the most important thing is that people have the desire and passion.

– Yao Ming

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It really impacted an entire generation, an entire country of people in how to embrace sports and sports activity, it impacted on our soul and the rest of the world and. I believe 2022 will be very similar.

– Yao Ming

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I think for this question, there is no perfect answer for that, even in this world there is no country that can say that they totally have no human rights problems. And just like Rome was not built in one day that problem can not be solved just like that.

– Yao Ming

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's fantastic to see the changes.

– Rainer Kampling

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's frustrating not being able to win golf tournaments, not really being there in contention very often... but I know how close it feels and I know I just need a couple of shots here and there and it turns the tide, people don't really realize how close it is between a person who is winning( a tournament) and a person missing the cut.

– Tiger Woods

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I didn't think that it would take this long because I thought I would have my short game earlier, you can cover up a lot of different things when you're chipping and putting well. I didn't have it at the beginning of the year... so that process of scoring has taken a lot longer because of that. But things are starting to come together.

– Tiger Woods

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's officially summer break, and the only day I can eat whatever I want, so that calls for pancakes and bacon.

– The Briton

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Akron is not a good course for me so I probably won't play more than three or four holes in practice but I'll spend a day on the putting green on the Wednesday, sometimes you stand over a putt, you visually see the line and you hit the line. It sounds silly to say but you just don't have that feeling all the time.

– Ian Poulter

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I'm not disappointed how I played because I thought I played good but I'm disappointed I didn't hole my fair share of putts, it's back to the drawing board now, I've got to try to visually see my lines.

– Ian Poulter

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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