Quotes About Sports

Rio was always going to be on the schedule for me, whether I had won in London or not. Triathlon is one of those sports where the Olympics is always the most important and the most interesting race, and I always wanted to have a crack at Rio and defend my title.

Northwestern was never known as a sports school. I was proud to add a national title to the school.

The heavyweight championship of the world was the most coveted title in sports. Everyone knew who the heavyweight champion was. And not only when it was Muhammad Ali or Rocky Marciano: they knew when it was Ingemar Johansson.

In England, there are five, six, seven big clubs, and you can never be sure who will win the title in the end. It's very exciting.

I have stated many times that one of my goals was to become K-1 champion. K-1 is, in our country Holland, very popular, and it's a big opportunity to become the first person that holds two world titles in two different sports.

I think you say that strikers win you games, but defenders win titles and I think that's really important.

Nothing comes close to the IPL, to be honest.

I find rowing very boring, I've got to be honest.

To be honest, I don't care who scores the goals.

To be honest, I'm not a big golf nerd. Golf is kind of boring, not much action.

You know, we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if its good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door.

I am obsessed with cricket. But to be honest, I prefer the IPL format to test matches.

Who would I think is the favorite? Well, to be honest, I think the top players. We are all very close, very equal.

Strikers never lose games... we have to be honest and say that.

When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.

I used to love playing football in high school. I played with the same guys for 10 years.

I was always into sports, and as a sportsperson, you need to be fit to survive and play from start to finish.

If you look at cricket per se, if you didn't have T20 cricket, Test cricket will die. People don't realise. You just play Test cricket, and don't play one-day cricket and T20 cricket, and speak to me after 10 years. The economics will just not allow the game to survive.

In my teens, I had no idea about running as a sports event. For me, an orphan, it was not only about learning how to survive the brutal world, but also about carving an identity.

It was fantastic when I came into snooker, when tobacco was throwing lots of money at it, and even when they fell away we thought others would come in because of all the TV exposure. But it didn't happen.

We strongly believe that children should not be exposed to smokeless tobacco or see such products being used by their on-field sports heroes.

I always wear flat shoes for darts because a heel can put me off balance. I press the side of my shoe against the oche, not the toe. That puts my throwing arm a few inches closer to the board. Not everybody is the same but it works for me.

When I was with the national team, I couldn't even touch my toes.

We were sent outside to our backyard to play sports together all the time - no boy and girl differentiation, just two teams playing.