Quotes About Sports

I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.

The face of the team are the people who're playing on the cricket field. The team is not about one individual.

Manchester City are a big team, and Chelsea are a big team.

I started to study psychology but had to stop when I got into the first team.

When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.

I played my first game of adult cricket at about eight or nine when the fifth team were short and picked me to field and bat at No 11. From then I just got the bug and wanted to play as often as possible.

A national team is a reflection of its country's football, and both Brazil and Argentina have earned respect for what they've achieved.

I'd never played on a team until high school. It gave me a sense of belonging, a focus, and helped build my confidence. I liked the feeling of accomplishment and the respect. Sports ideally teach discipline and commitment. They challenge you and build character for everything you do in life.

When I started, I was a striker for the first few months. Our goalkeeper didn't show up once, and the team was asked who wanted to fill in for him. No-one really wanted to, but I thought it would be an interesting challenge, so I agreed to do it.

I played cricket for the Delhi under-15 and 19 team. I was inspired by Imran Khan.

Hockey is not a one-man show; it's a team effort. If you don't work as a team - even if one or two guys aren't working - you're not going to win. That's the way it is.

Hockey is not an individual game. It is rather a team game.

It's a team game, but at the end of the day, you gotta be happy, and you gotta enjoy playing football every day.

The thing about football, man - it's a team game.

As a QB, it's a team game, and you're all out there in it.

It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.

I wanted to make the world's greatest football undershirt. But I realized that no team sport had equipment for apparel. Apparel was an afterthought.

I played soccer until I was like 10 or 11, maybe 12. I had fun with it, but it was a team sport, and I hated losing, and we kept losing, so I quit.

That's really the only thing that matters to me - what you've done as a team because basketball is a team sport.

I've learned so much whether it was, I played a lot of team sports, so being part of a team, learning how to be a leader on different teams, and how to deal with the ebb and flow of different games.

Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.

I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.