Quotes About Athletics

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

Kids in the city can play cricket, badminton, tennis or football. Athletics is not their cup of tea.

They teach you some things, but football is instinct sometimes. You just get the ball, and sometimes you dribble past three players and pass it; other times, you can shoot from far away. It's just instinct. If you feel something, just do it. I am free to do that.

My dad's a teacher and a football coach, and he found a job in New Jersey.

I've got a golf scholarship for school, so they understand if I'm away. A couple of years ago they called to see why I wasn't at school, and now they're like, 'oh, she's at golf.' Sometimes I'm in class and sometimes the teachers don't realize I'm there. She goes, 'oh, Lydia's absent.' And I'm like 'no, actually, I'm here.'

You grow up, no one really teaches you about taxes, especially as an athlete.

Being a dancer or athlete of any type teaches you the fundamentals of discipline... and the ability to know you can grow.

Playing sports is great when you're young. It teaches you how to focus, how to direct your energy, how not to think about a million other things that are going on.

CrossFit really teaches the basics and fundamentals of proper mechanical movement.

If the NBA teaches us anything, you have to have talent to win.

I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.

I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match.

The team aspect of football and just playing quarterback, having the ball in your hands, having to make the plays, that was definitely something I loved.

An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.

I had nightmares after being with the national team. You shouldn't have things like that.

I'm excited to join the Mountain Dew snowboarding team.

I'm a two-time Olympian, but on the front and back end of both of those were two Olympics where I narrowly missed making the team.

Football is the best team sport in the world, and it is good to hear that more and more kids are playing football in India.

I think football is a team sport.

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.

This is the best team sport ever created.

The reality is this: Fighting isn't a team sport; it's an individual's sport.

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 would never tell anybody to give up hockey - the great sports we have here - basketball, lacrosse - rugby coming into its own - we've got so many great team sports, and I say hold on to them.