Quotes About Sports

Football is getting bigger but ice hockey is still the biggest sport back home.

No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.

Right now I'm happy to be on the ice anywhere, anytime.

I always wanted to play ice hockey back in Australia, I'm not sure why, but we didn't have any ice where I lived. It was very hot - a coastal town.

Even in Canada, I never even played ice hockey. I never skated in my life; I always did rollerblade street hockey.

People don't know how fantastic women's ice hockey is. People don't know how fantastic hockey is in general.

When I was 5, I'm like,' I'm doing this,' whether there's women's ice hockey, men's ice hockey, whatever it was in my future.

'Playing like a girl' was used as a demeaning term instead of an empowering one. I am proud to be a girl and rocking the ice.

I don't know if there's any sport that's stupid, but I really don't understand curling. I guess I'm just not into brooms on ice.

Iceland won't change. No matter who they play, they're 4-4-2.

I play a lot of golf and I'm in a little ice hockey league at home in Idaho.

In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada.

I'm a sports idiot - watching it, playing it, making conversation about it - I got nothing.

You love football because of the game, not because of some idiot who is going to shout at your from across the street.

I don't think people realize how much I love basketball. A lot of people think because of this idiotic comment I made that I love baseball and don't like basketball. Baseball came first because if you grew up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, that was the No. 1 thing. But if you have more than one kid, you love them both.

Ronaldinho is the biggest idol in football for me. I like him a lot.

I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don't know if I could have played any other position. As a catcher, you're always on the ball.

If I could go the ballpark and play the game for three hours and then go home? It would be awesome. But that's not the case.

If I could ban boxing, I probably would, but I'll tell you in the same breath, I loved it growing up.

I think burnout is a big thing. If I could do it over again, I'd probably do it the same way, playing other sports when I'm younger. I see a lot of parents really push their younger kids really hard, and you want to see your kids do stuff, but there's a point where they really should have fun at that age.

Home-plate collisions are something you cannot ignore.

Malice is part of football, I wouldn't call it illegitimate.

My dream was always to be on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated.'

When 'Sports Illustrated' came out with their 50 most fashionable people in sport, that fact that I wasn't on that list is a travesty.