People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Professional sports are something they can't control.
Professional sports is a business.
Sports is entertainment.
Sports is a bunch of people gathering around, watching something that they're not actually connected to - they're just emotionally connected.
The sports space is so full of opinion that you aren't hearing from the athletes just speaking for themselves. We are such a Twitter-oriented society with radio talk shows, TV talk shows and social media - what you are missing is the authentic, unfiltered aspect of who these people are.
Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals.
For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care.
I mean, sports are big, big, big business.
I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it's pure.
The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.