Quotes About Sports

I cannot stand the Buckeyes, and having to live in Ohio and hear those people talk about their team, it drives me absolutely nuts.

I spent a lot of my childhood growing up in Oklahoma, where I wrestled and played baseball.

When I was competing at Oklahoma in college, I remember always getting a lot of anxiety before wrestling matches. Almost to the point where, 'Oh my gosh, man, this is a lot.'

The first time I played basketball was with my dad and my older brother Thanasis.

My parents and my older brother played. You kind of want to do what your family does. They were on the court. I'm like, 'I want to be on the court, too.'

The Olympic movement is divided into two very distinct eras.

Ever since I was a kid and all the time I have played in the NHL, NHL players have played in the Olympic Games.

The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.

There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.

I'm not a big fan of the Olympic Games. The ATP calendar is a bit complex due to the Olympic event.

The Chicago Special Olympics prove a very fundamental fact, the fact that exceptional children - children with mental retardation - can be exceptional athletes, the fact that through sports they can realize their potential for growth.

I'd always loved sports, and the Olympics were something I thought about often as a kid, but those dreams felt like a lifetime ago.

When I was 10, I went to the Junior Olympics for the 50-meter and 100-meter breaststroke.

I'm actually the daytime host of the Olympics on NBC.

America's first Olympics may have been its worst, or at least its most bizarre.

I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.

At least two or three of the leagues in Europe over the last few months have said to us, 'We hope you go to the Olympics,' and I looked at them, and I said, 'Why?' and they go, 'Because if you don't send NHL players, we have to send our players, and that's way too disruptive to our season.'

NHL clubs have not wanted to go to the Olympics, and we have been saying that for months if not years.

When I was 5 years old, I told my grandmother I was going to play hockey in the Olympics. Fifteen years later, I competed in my first Olympics.

One of the most common misconceptions about Olympic sports is that they only happen at the Olympics.

Because sports are a religion, it's difficult to imagine a world without the Olympics, and to be sure, they have given us many glorious moments.

Women's combat sports have been on a good run in the United States. Claressa Shields won a gold medal in women's boxing at the London Olympics in 2012, when it became a medal sport. American women won medals in taekwondo and judo as well.

We make two mistakes about the ancient world. One is to assume they were better than us - that, for instance, the ancient Olympics didn't involve money-making. The opposite mistake, and just as common, is to think our Olympics are much more civilised than ancient sporting competitions. Neither is true.

Growing up with brothers, I've always been a very competitive person and also very involved in sports. So when I was younger, whatever sport I was involved in, I wanted to go to the Olympics for that!