Quotes About Sport

It is a contact sport. Being tough is also part of the game.

The business aspect of this sport is a contradiction to what it's really about, and that's knowing something for what it is and not just what it looks like.

Growing up in sport, it is a pretty cool thing to be a part of.

In boxing, you have the 10-second count but we don't have it in MMA, and that's what makes this sport better.

A crash is part of the game. We've tried to make the cars a lot safer. There's no getting around it though. We're a contact sport.

I'm fighting to get paid. I'm not doing this because I love the sport so much. I'm not a crazy person.

Cricket was my reason for living.

I thought my dream job was to play cricket.

It is a big challenge as a spinner to play modern day cricket, where you have to have five players in the circle.

Spinners have a main role, whether in the IPL or world cricket. But it's hard to be a legspinner: you have to be accurate.

That is what Test cricket is about, adapting to different conditions around the world.

I play cricket. I'm a professional cricketer and I guess my job is to hopefully help Australia win games of cricket.

We've taken a position that drivers are going to be able to speak their mind and criticize the sport way more than any other sport would allow. However, there have to be some limits.

I think I'm a crossover athlete to get the sport into the mainstream media.

I don't think rodeo is cruel at all. Bullriding is the only man-animal event that makes sense.

I'd rather have a driver that was like that, that had that passion and that fire in his belly and you can channel that. The sport's crying out for more drivers like Max Verstappen.

We're going to continue to go into markets that we've never been in, continue to grow the sport, continue to cultivate talent and the whole landscape of television is changing and I feel like we're ahead of the curve on that, too.

Cycling is open to the whole world.

I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.

Cycling was the sport of our family - we did it all the time, five days a week.

I've been in a position where I've been barely doing any damage, and the ref stopped it. It's just sport.

I have respect for everybody. Dan Henderson is a legend for the sport. GSP, I have good respect for you, too.

Pilates has been around a long time but maybe was taboo in this sport. I think it's only a matter of time before you see a reformer in every big league clubhouse.

When the President of the United States comes out and says, 'If I had boys, I wouldn't let them play tackle football,' that's a big punch to the gut for our sport.