Quotes About Passion

My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.

For sure I would be a very emotional captain. A very hands-on captain.

Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.

I love baseball, and the door remains open.

I am really passionate about sports in general - especially water sports.

I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess.

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

When you're are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. Its more important than that.

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

For me, tennis is a sport. It's not a job, it's a sport.

I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.

Just give it everything you've got and bowl as fast as possible.

I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my - my brother and I both loved sports.

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened.

Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions

We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

When I grew up music was something I did on the side - I played sports, I went to school - and so music was always there, and I was really fortunate to have that, but so were so many other things.

Sports are, and should be, a joy. And it delights me that the joy I felt through the years of broadcasting games was projected onto the audience.

I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.