Quotes About Sports

When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.

I only dunked maybe twice a game on average.

Boston is so laced with jerseys that you can be dressed head to toe in team apparel and no one will look twice.

This is ludicrous. Seven- and eight-year-olds valiantly trying to cover the same acreage as those grown-up chaps in the Premier League is absurd. To add to the lunacy, a little goalkeeper, barely out of nappies, has to stand between posts that are eight strides apart - adult strides - and under a crossbar more than twice his height.

Certain players need twice the recovery time of others because they run much more - not because they put in more effort but because they're playing different positions.

I attended sports school in Bulgaria just like my parents. I attended class twice a day and trained twice a day.

I cycle, I take an hour's strenuous walk in the evening, I play tennis twice a week with a trainer, and I sail. I used to ride horses professionally - I'd ride seven or eight horses a day, so I had to be fit for that.

I go to the gym four times a week and play football about twice a week. I'm pretty active.

I was all limbs and I was very convinced that I must be uncoordinated, so I didn't want to try any sports. And the girls' basketball team was constantly like, "Please, please just come play."

If it's attention you want, don't get involved with a man during play-off season.

That's not the type of header you want to see your defender make, with his hand.

We have no target for the number of medals we hope to win in 2012 - yet. But we want every kid in the country to have the chance to have the best opportunities.

I think we need to be a bit more proactive. Let's not just talk about availability of sports, let's make the facilities more accessible to kids and make them want to come along.

All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series.

I am the Olympic Ambassador. I always promote Olympics. I just want to say, Olympics is Olympics. [You] cannot mix with politics. Olympics for me is love, peace, [being] united.

The Houston Astros want to change the name of Enron Field where they play. I guess the Enron name could cause problems for them. Like players could steal a base and then deny it.

There are people who love on weekends to go out when the sun comes out. I just want to lie in bed and watch sports and relax.

I love sports cars and want a Mercedes of an MG.

Working with all of these kids is great. It doesn't get any better than this, to come down and inspire kids who want to play the game of basketball and put smiles on their faces.

If baseball wants to get you, they've got enough resources and enough investigators that they'll find a way to get you.

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake.

I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.

The worst [about women's football] is never said officially. It is whispered. You hear it as a joke. Women should not play football at all, it is too masculine for their bodies is number one on the list. I usually chop back with that if it is masculinity you want, then go play American football. Leave [soccer] football to the women.