Quotes About Sports

Tennis is not a contract sport and we really rely on the WTA and ATP tours to be up and running so players can earn prize money to make a living.

When I was a kid, I loved figure skating. But in Mexico, they kind of push you toward hockey.

We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids.

I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.

If I play all the IPL games the whole season, I do get a bit tired towards the end.

Children need sports, even if they are inclined towards academics.

Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful.

I like 'Stifle Tower,' I like 'Gobzilla.' There's a lot of nicknames that are pretty cool.

I hardly ever watch TV and when I do it's sports. I'll occasionally stick on some old episode of 'Fawlty Towers' or something.

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.

I can't say Boston is 'home-home.' It's definitely a place I'm growing accustomed to. It's such a great sports town.

I come from a little town of 7,000 people, and everyone in my family played football.

It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

Being surrounded by hockey, I got forced into it as a kid. I started skating when I was 4 and had a rink only 10 minutes from my home. In my town, we had one outdoor rink and one indoor rink, so you could skate all year long. I lived by a lake, too, so we did a lot of skating on the lake.

I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.

In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.

Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That's how I got my first taste of football - when I went with my father to Husky Stadium.

My first baby toy was a basketball and ever since, I've had a basketball in my hands.

My first toy hoop was a Dr. J model!

There were no toys or games when I was younger, just a football.

As soon as I was old enough to move and walk, I went straight to sports. My mom said I never even played with toys.

I wasn't into any other toys. I always liked to play with balls and with a racket.

I think if you show respect on the track to each other, and you do clean overtaking moves, then they get respect for you.

So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.