G. H. Hardy Quotes

To have healthy competitions among players for places in the team is good for Indian cricket and the game in general.

When we are with the national team we are playing against much better players.

The NBA is tough. Everybody plays hard and every game is vital.

There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.

Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

Hockey suffers from being compared to itself in ways that other sports are not. Every four years, some of us fawn over Olympic hockey, a great event with bigger rinks, minimal goonishness and national pride in addition to the heightened skills of veritable all-star squads.

I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

The beauty of football is that it's about 11, and another five, at least, are sitting outside. You cannot get competitive.

This is what playing football is all about - trying to reach finals and trying to lift trophies.

Just being in the whole environment around the IPL, around the people that you ge to play with and against means it's going to be really, really good.

The single most important thing that sports fans want is competition building to a meaningful championship.

I play cricket for the competitive side of it.

When we go out and play the teams that we need to beat that aren't near our level, then we've got to go out there and blow them out.

When you go through a tournament of seven games, there are peaks and valleys. You kind of ride the players that are hot.

It's kind of interesting on a team sport because you have young players, you have older players, you have veterans. But ultimately, when you step in between those lines, you're just a player.

I do not like to discuss a game with the other players right after the final whistle.

I'm a sports lover. Not just cricket - I play badminton and football, too. When I get some time off, I prefer to play sports rather than working out.

It's part of my game to occasionally send a message, one that may be unpopular to the outside world, but can be important for the team.

If you go out to bat against Australia, they come at you hard.

It's hard to get up for a good high-school team like the Chicago Bulls.

It's not just the cheerleading thing I have a problem with, it's the whole jock enchilada. I'm all for a good game of basketball in teh driveway or a killer bike ride. But when there's tackling and grunting involved-- no thanks.

There's absolutely no way you can go barreling into second and dump a guy on a double play, like you should do, when you've been fraternizing with him before a game.

Soccer is a man's game, not an outing for mamby-pambies.

I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down.

I know that sacrifices have to be made to play with good teams.