[rock music plays]
[TITLE CARD] SIMONE BILES RISING
Woman: Simone is a once-in-a-lifetime athlete. She’s not just dominant in doing what already exists. She has multiple skills named after her. She is pushing herself.
Simone Biles: I had to fight demons, like, day in and day out in training. I really have to prove to myself that I can do this. I get to write my own ending.
[TITLE CARD] AMERICA’S SWEETHEARTS: DALLAS COWBOYS CHEERLEADERS
Woman 1: It is pressure every single night, but our job is to make it look easy.
Woman 2: You need to look like a supermodel but perform like an athlete. Your left kick won’t make this team.
Woman 2: You may have a bad day, but dry those tears, girl. You’re at practice now.
Woman 3: They are the best of the best.
[TITLE CARD] BECKHAM
David Beckham: All I ever wanted to do when I was young was play football.
[people shouting]
[people cheering]
Man 1: No trouble.
David Beckham’s Father: If I told him how good he was, then he’s got nothing to work at.
David Beckham: It’s like that saying, you know, when there’s an itch that needs scratching.
David Beckham’s Mom: We were worried that he’d lose all what he’d worked for, ’cause football’d come first, and all of a sudden, it wasn’t.
[TITLE CARD] QUARTERBACK
Kirk Cousins: This is about as close as they’ll ever get to crawling into our skin and seeing what it’s like to truly live it on a day-in, day-out basis.
Patrick Mahomes: Everybody sees the game days. They don’t see the day-to-day drive.
Marcus Mariota: My natural instinct has always been, "Imma be the guy to make a play." And I think that kind of gets me in trouble.
[TITLE CARD] RECEIVER
Deebo Samuel Sr.: Last time we went to the Super Bowl and didn’t win, but hopefully it’ll be a little different.
Davante Adams: I feel like it’s my responsibility to give them exactly what they came to see.
Amon-Ra St. Brown: I have games where I’ve had 210 yards, 180 yards. If I don’t have the opportunity to do that every single week, it doesn’t matter. You’re gonna see my best effort.
[TITLE CARD] SPRINT
Man 1: When people think about speed, they think about a hundred.
Man 2: Soon as the gun goes off, it’s showtime.
[pistol fires]
Usain Bolt: To win a hundred meters is no joke. You have to believe.
Noah Lyles: It takes a different mindset to be a track athlete. If you don’t have that drive, track and field ain’t for you.
Fred Kerley: I’m Fred Kerley, and it’s my title.
Noah Lyles: That’s what they all say until they get beat.
[TITLE CARD] TOUR DE FRANCE: UNCHAINED
[in French] Man 1: The Tour de France is very simple. It’s a cycle race. A stage a day for 21 days.
[in French] Man 2: If you are able to go beyond suffering and sacrifice … then maybe you have a chance to win.
[TITLE CARD] UNDER PRESSURE: THE U.S. WOMEN’S WORLD CUP TEAM
Woman 1: Anything can happen in a World Cup. And you can never take winning ever for granted.
Woman 2: I mean, to win once is hard. To win two in a row is unbelievable. To win three, it has never been done.
[indistinct shouting]
[TITLE CARD] WRESTLERS
[grunts]
Man 1: There’s nothing about professional wrestling that is fake other than the intent.
[crowd cheering]
[bell dings]
Man 1: Do I worry that we’ll go out of business? Yeah. I worry about that every ****** day.
Man 2: If we don’t start doing better, there won’t be an OVW. This is the summer to take it to the next level.
[TITLE CARD] FULL SWING
Man 1: Every season’s gonna be different challenges.
Man 2: There has been a lot of controversy and a lot of uncertainty.
Man 3: Yeah, it’s been quite the year in the world of professional golf.
[laughs]
[TITLE CARD] CHEER
Woman 1: Some of those last thoughts are gonna be a battle, but your attitude will make or break you. And if the attitude’s not good, you won’t be going to Daytona.
Woman 2: There’s all these kids coming in that have so much confidence and talent that you’re like, “These kids are showing me up.”
[TITLE CARD] THE LAST DANCE
Jerry Reinsdorf: We were looking at this team, and we realized, other than Michael, the rest of the guys were probably at the end of their high productive years. We had to decide whether we keep the team together or not.
[TITLE CARD] FORMULA 1: DRIVE TO SURVIVE
Man 1: New teams.
Man 2: Young and upcoming drivers.
Man 3: A dream come true.
Woman 1: Now this fight for the title has become all-out war.
Man 3: The margins are so close.
Announcer: Oh, they touched!
Man 3: Nobody wants to finish second.
Man 4: Every weekend, you’re fighting for your seat.
[TITLE CARD] LAST CHANCE U
Man 1: We’re trying to mesh 90 different individuals. 90 individuals that you’re trying to make a unit.
[whistle blows]
Man 1: If we can overcome that, I think we’ll have a chance to be pretty good.
[TITLE CARD] PELÉ
[in Portuguese] Pelé: The World Cup is important for the country.
[people cheering]
[in Portuguese] Pelé: But at the moment, I don’t want to be Pelé. I didn’t like it, I didn’t want it.
[TITLE CARD] THE REDEEM TEAM
Carlos Boozer: After we lost ’04, we all felt like we were letting USA Basketball down. Especially us four guys. You know, myself, D-Wade, Bron, and Melo. We were part of that team, and we felt that agony of defeat.
[TITLE CARD] NAOMI OSAKA
Commentator: The US Open champion.
[crowd cheering]
Naomi Osaka: The interesting thing is, like, everyone’s built differently. So we all have our different strengths.
[ball echoes]