Quotes About Youth sports

There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

their kids in hockey, soccer, and judo. Girls are now passionate about ballroom dancing and tango,

I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.

I worked at a daycare for a couple of years going through high school and college. I did youth sports camps. I ran all the camps through my college.

Kids on a team are like flowers in a bouquet, there is always one that wants to face a different way than the arranger desires.

I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.

que dejar que nuestros hijos hagan deportes de contacto, como el fútbol americano y el hockey, no es una buena idea.

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings

Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all it keeps them off the street.

My brother one time after a little league basketball game, I think he messed up or something had happened in the game, ends up getting in an argument with my dad. Ultimately he gets pushed down and he ends up cutting the back of his head. He had six or seven stitches over a 10-year-old basketball game. That was tough to watch.

I like how in little league they have nine kids who play the field but we have 17 kids on the roster and all 17 kids should hit. I like that we do that down here in Florida.

I played in the school football team, as a striker, and in year 7 and 8 I was one of the leading goalscorers.

I was very fortunate when I was little - I played basketball. You really absolutely learn how to be a team player, how to win a game, to accomplish things, not just for yourself.

My kids have played soccer and baseball and basketball, and the parents who come to games are always saying and doing things that are just wildly inappropriate.

The Pluto boys were already The Planets so the Pluto girls were The Lady Planets. Their colors were purple and white, their mascot was a round planet with legs, arms, a perky face. The Reservation team was The Warriors but the girls weren't The Lady Warriors, they were just The Warriors also. Their colors were blue and gold. They didn't want to have themselves as a mascot so they had an old time shield with two eagle feathers.

Let the teachers learn the kids English. Ol' Diz will learn the kids baseball.

The biggest thing I noticed growing up when I was doing BMX racing or playing rugby through to secondary school level, was seeing the parents who were so desperate to see their kids do well that they were almost living their lives through their kids and putting huge pressure on them to the point they weren't enjoying it.

People need to know that they can make a living. We are losing a lot of the best athletes to other sports at the age of seven or eight, which is exactly the time when you want to get a racket into their hand.

From a small age, we used to play a lot of school cricket: 30-35 games in a year in school cricket, then Under-16 games.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.