Quotes About Sports

I've had multiple concussions. I've had to stop fighting when I was 32, because according to my doctor, it was the 2nd concussion. No, it was the 2nd concussion he knew of.

My mum's a good runner, so is my granddad. We're a big sporting family.

I've always watched football in Mumbai.

People should have access to sports, especially in cities like Mumbai, where we have a shortage of space.

I've never been much of a trash-talker, and it probably goes back to playing driveway basketball when I was 12. It's never worked out for me. I've never flexed that muscle! It's not my style.

Even at the age of 33 I was one of the most flexible at Arsenal when it came to my back muscles.

Baseball fans! Good lord! I feel like sports fans get mad at you easier than country music fans. It scares me. I'm glad that country fans don't get mad every time I mess up.

My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.

I love playing against my friend D-Rose.

I don't really know football from the Seventies and Eighties. It's all myths and legends to me.

I had somebody say to me, 'You should play more ladylike.' This is basketball. I'm supposed to go out there and, 'Oh, I broke my nail,' or 'Oh, you hit me?'

My first cat was named Cowboy, after the Dallas Cowboys.

I'm honoured and delighted to be named the 'Irish Times'/Irish Sports Council Sportswoman of the Year 2014. This has been an amazing year for me and for Irish women in sport, and I would like to congratulate all the finalists in their respective fields who have excelled at major sporting events.

The sad thing is that I know no athletes' names. I am not a sports girl at all.

In sports, big names and celebrities drive events, and that's what people gravitate to.

You can see Bjorn Borg, but when I watch some game of him I want just to take a nap, no?

I read a lot growing up. It was kind of my comfort, you know; I loved it. I love story. I love narrative. I was academic. I wasn't particularly athletic. I didn't make the drill team. I didn't go out for sports.

When you think about the NASCAR brand, it resonates everywhere. They have the No. 1 sports brand.

I feel, at the national level, shooters should get monetary rewards also, along with medals and a handshake.

Our national identity is so interwoven with football.

Yugoslavia is a little country, and everybody likes basketball. If I don't play for my national team, everybody be sad.

I scored my first goal with the national team against France.

I play with players in the Brazilian national team who are similar to those at Chelsea - Kaka, Neymar.

I think it would be pretty cool, whether it would be basketball or baseball, playing for a national team.