Quotes About Sports

Most footballers play golf for five or six hours. I'd rather play my saxophone. I get out to gigs when I can.

I don't play golf. I don't know anything about golf.

I got racist abuse at Liverpool when I played for Watford. Then I played for Liverpool and didn't get it. If I had played for Everton against Liverpool then maybe the Liverpool fans would have racially abused me.

The last time I played rugby, I busted my nose bad, and that's incentive not to get down and dirty in the park anymore.

My dad played junior college basketball, and he always showed me clips of Michael Jordan.

Sometimes I played as a goalkeeper with my brother and his friends - they were all older, and nobody wanted to go in goal, so it had to be me!

I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.

Tendulkar has had the greatest cricket career of anyone who has ever played the game.

I grew up an athlete, growing up in Pittsburgh. I played basketball. I played football. I played a little bit of baseball in my earlier years.

I was a fan of baseball growing up. We played baseball; I used to play in an A&P parking lot. It wasn't always easy to find a good baseball field to play in.

It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.

I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.

I'm a fan of LeBron James. I'm not really a team fan; I'm just a fan of one player.

My dream was to be a football player.

I think when people ask me, 'Who's your favourite player?' it's hard for me to answer.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

Because I'm fairly big, I like to use my body. So I'll control the ball, even when there's a player on me, and then I'll pass.

I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it's a beautiful game in many respects, one that allows you to follow a player from boyhood through manhood.

We definitely have a football mentality. My dad was a football player also, so just growing up, that's how it was.

I watch a lot of badminton, and as a result, I know more or less about the forms of most of the players.

Intuition is what makes the best players.

I don't think there's been that many indigenous players in Australia.

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.

No, I don't think I'm especially one of the best players in the league.