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Celebs share sports memories

Sporting News, The, Jan 21, 2005

In The Games Do Count America's Best and Brightest on the Power of Sports (Regan Books), FOX News host Brian Kilmeade compiles tales and reflections from 73 notable figures about their athletic experiences. Some highlights:

Darius Rucker, Hootie and the Blowfish: "My mom was at every game, and you knew she was there. She was loud.

My favorite story was about these twins who were huge and played defensive end. As quarterback, I'd go back to pass, and these two guys just crushed me. There I am, lying on my back. My ribs and back are killing me and I have the wind knocked out of me and all I hear is, 'You're not hurt. Get up. Get up!' Other moms might yell, 'Stay down!' or run out on the field to see how their kid was. But my mom just demanded that I get up. So, I got up."

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Jon Stewart: "The best way to describe my ability was to say that after the game the other kids would say to me, 'Way to try!'"

Robin Williams: "When I was wrestling, my mother was always going,

'You're not eating.' And I'd go, 'I can't.' My mother was at the wrestling matches, and the coach kept yelling 'Crotch grab,' and I'm going, 'Great, that's nice. Can you lay off that, because I don't know how well Mom deals with that.' The sport looks Greek enough already, so you don't have to be yelling, 'Crotch grab!'"

John Tesh: "I was a skinny, hideous-looking kid. My parents put braces on me to straighten my teeth, and in those days that was like wearing barbed wire in your mouth. They sent me to school every day with a bologna sandwich, because they wanted to save money. So I smelled like bologna, and I had barbed wire on my teeth. The whole thing in junior high school is for girls to be interested, and the girls were definitely not interested in me. 'What am 1 going to do to be popular?' I asked myself. I said to myself, 'Well, I can't run, but I can jump, so why not try high jumping?' So I did, and in seventh grade I ended up setting a school record. They announced my name in the auditorium, and all of a sudden I was a hero for about a week, until somebody else broke it."

Celebs share sports memories

Sporting News, The, Jan 21, 2005

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