Quotes About Sports

I've fought a couple different places in the world. I love America, I'm American, but I have to say that American fans are the worst. I have to say it. They can get mad at me. I said it, and it's something they can work on.

I love batting at four.

If people don't know what a punter is in football, they're not going to know what a fourth down kicker is, either.

Franchise cricket is here to stay because of the money.

I do not think any thinking individual buys a sports franchise, or an English football club, to make money.

I'm a basketball freak.

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they can't do. Like stay home one week and play the next week.

I freelance as a sports broadcaster.

French people love sport, and they love their national teams even more.

There is a different sort of edge when you come up against England. Even when it's a friendly game you still get that fear in you that if you get beat it won't be good but if you win it will be the best thing going.

I don't like friendly matches.

Don't get me wrong; I'm not advocating for five-month breaks, like in other sports. That's way too long. All I'm saying is it sure is nice to miss MMA from time to time.

League was everything to me, I put that in front of God, and He took me away from that to go to AFL.

I think I'd better lose 10 or 15 kilos and play up front to score.

I surfed until I was 18, and being the athlete that I am, I got really frustrated with how I wasn't really getting any better.

I never got used to getting hurt and watching games on the bench. So, it's a little frustrating for me to sit there and watch my guys go out there and play every day.

Punting the ball is really frustrating to me.

My dad was a great athlete growing up, and he could never fulfill his dreams of playing professional baseball.

When I started out there weren't even contracts for players and now all the girls on the team are full-time professional athletes, I guess seeing that evolve over a period of time has been incredible.

Completing my degree in Sports Development at Liverpool's John Moores University while being full-time at Manchester City is one of my greatest achievements.

I left school at 16, with GCSEs, and went boxing full-time.

It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.

I had to work on the fundamentals of the game because in league, the position I played, it was just bash and crash.