Quotes About Sports

I'm not playing for any other organization. I'm Phoenix Mercury until I'm done.

It means a lot to be in one place for my whole career. The minute I got drafted in Phoenix, I knew it was a place I was going to be for a long time. But we know in the sports world and life in general, you don't know where it takes you sometimes.

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

I am not against cricket, but it is dominating this country. All other games are finished, because the media shows cricket 24 hours a day, the papers are full of cricketers' photographs.

I love football, but I'm also very passionate about photography and film.

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.

In the '90s, when I started, it was still a rough-and-tumble, physical league. You take the hook and holding and a little bit of the physicality out of the game, and the speed ratcheted up two-fold.

I think, in the U.S., we have such a focus on the physicality, on being the best athlete, that it sort of overshadows the football aspect of it.

Frankly, I think it should be no football until you're physically mature.

We, as sportsmen, we're not used to just sitting at home and being at home all day. We want to go out. We want to play sport. We want to be in the gym, want to train; we want to hit balls, and when you're not physically able to do that, it's really tough. It starts playing on the mind a lot more.

Football has a future. I don't know what that future is. I'm a physician.

Of course there is school and sports, but I also like X-Box 360. 'Black Ops 3' is one of my favorites. I also like to play the guitar and piano.

I used to play tennis growing up and then didn't play for a good 10 years. I've picked up the sport again and I absolutely love it.

I've been engulfed in sports since I was a 2-year-old; I picked up any kind of ball - a basketball, baseball, football - I just loved to play something. I loved the energy of being in arenas and watching the game on TV.

My brother was a left-hander. When I was young, my father would say take your brother's gloves and pads and play, so I picked up the bat left-handed.

Whenever I used to do sports at school, there were those children who were picked last. I just wasn't picked at all.

A large part of my childhood was spent holding a cricket bat. The first time I picked one up was in the garden aged about six, and I've never really put the bat down since.

From the time I was very little and I first picked up a ball, in the back of my head I thought I would coach the game.

When I was 7, we moved to Manasquan, where I picked up the game of basketball.

Football was really my least favorite sport and the last sport that I ended up picking up as a kid. My dad started me off with baseball, which most kids did at that time. I really enjoyed basketball. That was my favorite sport.

I batted with contact lenses in the IPL while playing for Delhi Daredevils. I wasn't picking the ball early. So I went back to the glasses.

I know my dad would have loved me to have played rugby. He was a No. 8. I started off playing centre and ended up playing at the back of the scrum, No. 8 as well, just picking it up and running with it.

I played every sport you could play until junior high and then I had to start picking a couple because there were conflicts in seasons.

You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football.