Randeep Hooda Quotes

That's what's great about baseball: some people are exceptional at the game, but still, even people that aren't very athletic, like me - I played Little League! It's one of those games in sports where even if you're not the greatest, you can still play.

Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.

When I became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was stodgy, gray, run by elitists. I said, 'Hey, let's kick the thing around.' I wanted to attract young people to the museum. I said, 'Make it hospitable. I want them to come. I want them to make dates, pick up girls, pick up boys - either way; I don't care.'

To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.

There's no shortage of great young activists.

More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it's a great team sport, so I don't get carried away with a bunch of accolades.

I tend to focus on young people and on giving a voice to groups of people who don't normally get their voices heard.

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

I'm persuaded that sports is the one place where the rules are pretty well set out, where fans are equal. And if you got game or you're a good official, you make it here, whether you're white or you're black.

The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it.

Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

India needs a change - it cannot be ruled by 80-year-olds and by people who have done nothing for it.

I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport.

I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.

The great thing about America, what I've loved about it, is how sports-friendly it is. In America, sports are respected and loved.

I think it is so great right now that we are in an age where there's an African American president in office. I think it is important for our generation to really witness that.

The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.

There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.

The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our country's history, starting with the Salem witch trials, where the conservative view was that they're witches and should be burned at the stake, and the liberal view was there's no such thing as witches.

For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.