Quotes About Sports

I really didn't want to play basketball for the longest time, but I just wouldn't stop growing. But I always wanted to be a professional soccer player.

It's funny, you'll probably find me more often watching soccer than a football game, because I get enough football in my daily schedule.

I was in my junior year of high school and I had been playing soccer and basketball almost my entire life, and I wanted a change of pace. I wanted to do something more, something different. That's when I found an MMA gym about 45 minutes from my house and fell in love with the idea of becoming a professional fighter.

My dad, he always played soccer.

Baseball is the biggest sport in Japan, then soccer, and basketball is... People don't really care about basketball.

I never even think of playing soccer.

I could have played soccer if I wanted.

I grew up playing baseball, playing soccer, having a paper route, while running my own small lawn mowing and snow shovelling businesses as a kid.

In any professional level competition, soccer players, you've got to know when to stop.

I did every sport and I played soccer in college.

The natural thing in Africa is to start playing soccer at 8 or 9. You go outside and you play like kids play basketball here, and you grow a feel for the game. In Africa, the kids start playing basketball at 16 or 17 or 18, and when they get an opportunity to come here, they have been playing for only one or two years.

My favorite postgame treat as a kid was the sliced oranges. We had those when I played soccer, too, at halftime.

I started playing soccer first and then basketball. I had a leg injury when I was young and my mom said, 'come on, try to choose a different sport.'

Hockey and soccer weren't my thing.

In every sport, at the competitive level, there's always a danger of injury. But there are considerably less chances in body building comparatively, than say in soccer.

I believe that soccer can be an example of understanding and peace between countries and between peoples.

I wish I could say that I saw Barcelona playing on TV and fell in love with football instantly, but I'm from Colorado and Fox Soccer Channel was pretty expensive.

Soccer has surpassed, in this country, hockey.

I always thought I would make it as a professional athlete but I thought it would be playing soccer.

When I was a kid, I mix watching soccer and the U.S. Open, that's it.

I actually played a lot of other sports - table tennis and soccer for a long time.

Unfortunately, we don't have the luxury of being paid like NBA, NFL and soccer and baseball athletes. They have that cushion where they can kind of hang out. Even the guys on the bench. But for us, we don't fight, we don't get paid and that's the scary reality to it all.

To be honest I never watch a tennis match. I watch basketball a lot, soccer, never tennis.

I play basketball, I play soccer, I draw, uh I like girls.