When you play a team sport all your life, you need to get out there sometimes and show some individualism in a sport where you play against the nature.
I respect all the fighters. I respect Georges St-Pierre because Georges has a great story in the UFC. I respect all the fighters in here because this is the biggest sport in the world.
The downfall of any leader in a sport’s team is when he gets carried away with his own ego.
A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
We’ve just got to be careful – with all sports, let alone cricket – I think there’s so much emphasis on doing the right thing all the time, but I think the public want to be entertained when they come to watch sport.
Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game – loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren’t true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.
The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.
Baseball loyalists cite the game’s legendary numbers – 300 wins, 500 homers, 3,000 hits – as evidence of the sport’s elegance, beauty, and gravitas. What no one mentions is how wretched and painful it is to actually watch a former star gasp and sputter his way toward a legendary number.
The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain.
I was super insecure in middle school; I didn’t tell anyone I swam because it wasn’t the cool sport to be doing.
With soccer, it’s such a dynamic sport. It’s important that however you play, you should be training like that.
In a sport that’s as close as tennis, I feel like anything that you can do to give yourself an edge is definitely worth doing.
It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.
Lots of people still don’t think of golf as a sport.
Take a martial art or a sport, something that gives you a skill, engages the body, and allows you the possibility of being great – or at least being active. You’ll find your confidence. Without it, you’re nothing. It’s the remedy for everything.
When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!
Boxing is a really difficult sport! So I don’t want to tell you I wouldn’t try it, but I guess everybody that does know about it, my friends, they tell me how difficult it is, and I’m like, ‘Eh.’
I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.
Marriage is a blood sport. Marriage is jousting. It’s disembowelment. It’s just terrible, terrible visceral injuries. It’s not for everybody.
