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I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

People forget that track and field is one of the hardest sports because we compete against all the world. There are many sports when you are up against only 15 or 20 countries.

Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.

Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.

We've got teams and other countries have teams. Right now, we are going to their countries; we're finding the best athletes; we're bringing them to our team. We're training them, we're making them awesome, and sending them back to beat us. We've got to stop that.

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.