17 Quotes by Peter Roby

When a young person grows up with a father not in his life because the father chose not be involved, that can be debilitating,

We don't want people to assume that athletes on team sports are going to be more predisposed to a certain way of looking at life than those that aren't on team sports.

The more that connection is made, the more dangerous it is. A lot of young kids can't make the distinction between what they see on TV and what's happening off TV with online gambling.

It's peer pressure. They look at the other kid's talent and what's our kid doing? Sports is so big, so much attention is paid to it. When you walk into a high school, what's the first thing you see? A trophy case and pictures of the athletes. You don't see pictures of average students.

I'm not overly concerned about it. If it were to really catch on, it would be a good thing in terms of encouraging people to participate in physical activity.

If you only look for candidates in a pool of people that look and act like you, you're likely to get candidates that look and act like you. This has to be based on a meritocracy, not just who you know.

By doing that, we can start to eliminate violence against women - because we're starting to personalize it and not continuing to objectify women.

The importance of sport has grown in our society, especially in attention from the media and corporate advertisers,