I'm doing a BOOK, 'Chasing SCIENCE,' about the PLEASURES of science as a spectator SPORT.

Volleyball is a JEWISH SPORT. It's fun, and NOBODY can GET hurt.

I COME from a village where traditionally girls don't go out and play SPORT so I struggled a lot to come this far and to GET to this position where I am at the OLYMPICS.

Where there are no spectators, there is no sponsorship. Where there is no sponsorship, there is no money. Where there is no money, there are no officials with fingers in the POT. The lesson to be learnt from this is SIMPLE. If we WANT honest sport, we have to stop watching it.

To WIN in AUSTRALIA, for me, has to be the ultimate SUCCESS because the Aussies live for sport.

I THINK that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like SPORT. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it's not LIKELY to happen the WAY they are going about it.

For many of US, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we LEFT behind. It GIVES us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about.

By the TIME you GET to your BALL, if you don't know what to do with it, try ANOTHER sport.

I GET asked this a LOT: Why has SOCCER not succeeded? My ANSWER is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth LEVEL, no question.

Chess only appeals to QUITE a small MINORITY. It does not have the cachet of a MAINSTREAM POPULAR sport.

I think it puts baseball BACK on the map as a SPORT. It's America's pastime and just look at EVERYONE coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting YEAR.