Mohammad Amir Quotes

For me, sports is a big part of my life. It helped me through high school. It helped me get better grades, because if you don't have good grades, you can't play sports.

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.

Growing up, I played softball and I was a cheerleader.

I joined the local athletics club when I was 12, that's what I did. I did it of my own volition.

My parents always kept my brothers and I in sports to keep us out of trouble.

I enjoyed every minute of being at school. I was doing my work but still playing football.

Growing up, my father coached my basketball team, and my mother drove me into St. Louis for various rehearsals between musical productions and Radio Disney.

I wouldn't have went to school if I wasn't playing football.

Growing up, I tried to be involved in school a lot, and I had good grades. I was an active kid, and I loved being social.

I was on the math team, and I was on the soccer team.

Growing up, I played football and was always one of the best on the team.

I would urge youngsters to pick up a sport while pursuing your studies as it will keep you fit and you could make your country proud in the field of sports.

I started playing soccer when I was 4 because my sister was doing it. It was my first organized sport, and my parents thought this was a great way to get coordinated and be part of a team. I had an array of options but eventually figured out soccer was best for me.

It is important that I get to play football.

To graduate in four years as a student-athlete with no summer school is quite a feat.

I was an average student, who took active interest in athletics.

There are different reasons why I wanted to try AFL - some of them family reasons and others were more personal ones.

I was an above-average student who excelled in basketball and theatre.

I had always been involved in athletics throughout my life.

We would always rush to do our homework because after work, we knew that it was football.

I want to be out there playing just as much as everybody else.

Just do your schoolwork, focus on a sport if you're good at it, do what I did.

I try to think of school - this is going to sound awful - as something I do in my free time.

I encourage all players to work to be their best, which includes looking for opportunities beyond the playing field.