Quotes About Sport

I support the French team - I go to all their matches - but I don't want to use sport for politics. That's not good for sport or for politics.

The less I think about meals and everything else, the more I can focus on my sport, and the better I play.

I'm blessed beyond measures to play the sport that I love and hopefully have longevity.

I talked about a rematch with Velasquez in respect. He was a great champion and did a lot for the sport, so I was being respectful.

I didn't make enough money in my sport to retire.

Now I can give back and be a role model and an advocate for women in sport.

I think any player, as a rookie coming into any sport, has to prove themselves.

For those of you who weren't a part of the era of ECW, understand, you're looking at the guy that made ECW what ECW was. So, simply put, I'm as close to royalty in this sport as it comes.

Rugby's all I've ever wanted to do.

I don't think you need to go global rugby to save the Lions, but I think you need to go global rugby to save rugby and not lose things like the Lions.

If I hadn't had the rugby field to get rid of my aggression I would have been locked up a long time ago.

Football was my sport. I was fast. I was a free safety.

I was that hyperactive when I was growing up, I rarely sat still to watch sport. I was always out there 'doing.'

I think football must be attractive for fans, and that means scoring goals.

Golf is a working man's sport in Scotland.

People are getting used to women's football on their screens, so as long as the quality of the product is high, we'll draw fans to the sport.

Horses have been my life and I owe everything to them and the tremendous sport in which I have been so fortunate to be involved.

Painting is almost like a sport. It's like this action thing. When I do it, I'm really not thinking. The paintings are like a diary that I might not want to read again.

There's nothing wrong with ankles. But only if you're playing football in the park.

What I wanted to do in talking about basketball in 'Hoop Roots' was retrieve the game as something to participate in, not to watch.

The life of the sport is to participate for the fans, to hear the uproar, to hear the cheers.

I feel '14 didn't just shape me and my approach from then on: it changed the level of overtaking from other guys in the sport as well. Not many people were doing that, coming from a long way back and trying big passing moves.

If there is any true value in running as a sport, it is that it is a great leveler. Runners don't gear up, armoring ourselves like football players; we strip down to the minimum and empty our hands and become what we are at our most natural, and thus we are reduced to what we all have in common: legs, lungs, heart, and mind. We are all out there on the same course, heading the same way, whatever our speed, a brother/sisterhood of chafed thighs and aching feet.

There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.