Quotes About Sports

My greatest moment as a jock occurred when I was 14 and playing punch ball in front of my house on Albemarle Road near East 17th Street in Brooklyn. I ran back, back for a ball, and it fell in my hands. I didn't even see it. Everyone congratulated me on the catch, and I never told them how it really happened.

When you think about martial arts here in the states, kickboxing was here in the '70s, and it kind of ran its course. But I always felt there was a place in combat sports for kickboxing.

Growing up, I didn't like basketball. I played football and baseball and ran some track.

I played baseball a little bit and ran some track. I was a catcher at one point and I was at shortstop.

My parents both played golf and introduced me to golf when I was 5 years old. They took me to the driving range and I played around at the range and immediately developed an interest in it.

I went to the driving range and hit a couple of good shots and I was hooked. Now I have six putters, including one engraved with my name.

I think the XFL has a good chance. With the way sports gambling is coming to be and the people they have running that league, I think Vince does not want to fail again.

I'm a huge gamer and have been playing 'NBA Live' since 1995.

I don't get it when people complain that baseball games are too long.

We know that's what's best for our fans, to have all the games on TV.

From a small age, we used to play a lot of school cricket: 30-35 games in a year in school cricket, then Under-16 games.

Growing up in Belgium, I played football all of the time, in the garden, on the street.

The Garden is my favorite arena.

I've been interested in basketball since I was a little kid - like, 3. The Bulls were my team. If you grew up in Gary, the Bulls were everybody's team.

I was the kid in basketball camps wanting to see the new gear that comes out or the gear that the camps give.

I think the biggest thing I can say to that is every female is different. Not that every man isn't, but speaking on behalf on my gender, I think women can watch sports exactly like men, and others watch it exactly the opposite way.

Sure, it's nice to get appreciation from the outside. But generally, I don't think personal accolades are appropriate in football.

I want to be the first boxer to generate a billion dollars.

The '80s, '90s, and early 2000s genes of competitive fire are dead and gone.

I love basketball. I love football. And to me, I think that's a dimension that you don't see with a lot of female leads, especially. I have a genuine love for it, and I always thought it was very interesting to show that side of me.

I have genuine empathy for the fact that if you're a professional footballer, you've often started at three years old, you've been found, you've been scouted, you play, you play, you play, you make millions, you live this incredible life. And then you reach 35, and suddenly you have to stop doing it, and you haven't been taught anything else.

I am a Georgia guy, and I have Brett Favre's card when he played with the Atlanta Falcons. That's my retirement plan.

Without a doubt, German football, where I've played for nearly five years, is very similar - maybe just a little less tough than English football.

I loved school, although I got bored very easily. I liked literature. I loved philosophy. I didn't like math. I was good at English. I didn't like German. I was good at sports and continued to compete on all sorts of teams.