Yanni Quotes

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

Sports is my passion.

I love sports - I used to play volleyball really competitively...I went to Junior Olympic qualifiers, and I've ridden horses my whole life.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.

I don't know whether it's the athlete in me or the passion I have for the game: I always think that I can step back on the field and play.

I live to be in these matches.

Football's an intense game. I love that. It's awesome.

Sports are in my soul. That's what drives me.

Athletics is not like cricket; we feed on the competition and that makes us bring out the best in us.

Sport is my passion but I have a way to go.

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.

Athletics is in my blood.

But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.

For me, I've lived a life as an athlete.

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

Athletes are very cool to me.

I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always.

Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.