Quotes About Sports

My biggest concern is that Test cricket and Twenty20 cricket are competing too much. They should be complementing each other and the more they clash the more damaging it will be for cricket.

HIL boasts of a high-class list of players and coaches like Ric Charlesworth, Barry Dancer, etc.

I am almost incredible at table football. It's nothing to be proud of.

My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze.

This is a game that at the end of the day, it's sports entertainment. We have to perform to keep fans in the seats, and what they pay helps put food on our tables.

Sometimes going in for a hard tackle generates a louder cheer than a great pass.

So, growing up myself, I played flag all the way up until seventh grade. So, we didn't tackle until I was 12, 13 years old or whatever it was.

I see similarities in the sports I played growing up in the sense of how I tackle a role when I get a job. A lot of effort goes in on an individual basis. There is a lot of time spent by yourself working on your craft and what you have to do. But, at the end of the day, you're there to serve the movie just like you would the rugby team.

You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college.

My mom didn't let me play tackle until I was in high school. She didn't want me to get hurt.

At nose tackle, you don't have to run that much.

I know other people who have started their kids in tackle football for, like, four- and five-year-olds. So I think it's up to each individual's parents, but for me personally, no I wouldn't. But would I be OK with him playing in seventh or eighth grade? Yes.

I would advise kids not to play any sports, such as tackle football, where they are exposed to repeated blows to the head.

I'm a firm believer that there's no way that a six-year-old should have a helmet on and learn a tackling drill.

I got a pommel in my eye. A pommel is the end of a sword - not the sharp end, the other end. It wasn't actually a sword fight. I was rugby tackling somebody but we hadn't rehearsed with all the kit on so suddenly there's a whole other part of the equation and that did really hurt.

We played a lot of sandlot ball, so we were used to tackling each other, or falling on the concrete, things of that nature. And nine times out of 10, our flag games turned into tackle anyway. So when I got to high school, tackle football was kind of natural.

Football in England is much more direct that in Spain - not just in terms of tactics or style but in the overall approach.

I grew up playing hockey and baseball, so I wish I had time to get back into it, but living in L.A. and North Carolina, you have to take advantage of the golf.

For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.

I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.

Brazil has so many good free-kick takers.

I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.

Charles Wang, owner of the New York Islanders, serves as something of a cautionary tale in terms of how heavy owner involvement can sink a franchise.