BP Daily Podcast

Here's what Sam said, starting right at the 25 minute mark:

"Athletes in general are chosen for their ability to run fast, lift things, throw things, hit things, and they are not chosen for their personality skills.

And in fact they are often chosen- I don't mean literally chosen - but their skills benefit from having the exact opposite of good social skills- from having almost sociopathic tendencies toward self-absorption and self-improvement."

So he doesn't directly call them 'sociopaths'; he refers to the degree of self-absorption often required to reach the bigs 'almost' sociopathic. Seems like a reasonable statement to me.