Garfield Sobers Quotes

However, there is no assurance that we can produce world class players so soon. Only time can tell.

I was a pretty normal high school kid. I just loved to play sports and had opportunities, and the Lord blessed me with talent, and I just tried to take advantage of it.

The great thing with Usain Bolt is he fell into great coaching, so his talent was exceptional from Day 1. You can coach technique and structure, but not talent.

Coaching in college is not a right. It's a privilege.

I had a coach when I was getting recruited say maybe you should play basketball at a Division III level, because you're not good enough to play football in college.

I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.

If I was a second-team player, I probably would have gone to uni.

I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?

Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What's lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity.

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.

I think there are some players born to play ball.

Basketball was always my sport. It just took me until my second year of college for me to realize that I was a better baseball player than a basketball player. But basketball was always my number one love. Finally found out I was better at baseball and chose to pursue that route.

The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely. I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there's no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.

Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

Every kid in America dreams of playing in the big leagues and they don't, just because. It's not because they blew out their knee. It's just because they didn't make it.

To go to the next level, you have to be special, and I look for those special qualities in those players, those qualities that I think will translate to the NFL.

I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and later gave me my first instructions in sprinting. I happened to be at the right place at the right time.

We should not go to a baseball rule. If a kid goes to college and, after a year or two, wants to go to the NBA and is good enough - and he grew, he got bigger, he got more confidence - let him go. Why would you now force a kid to go two years?

I take the opportunity 3s, and I think I'm one of the better shooters.

I was not the best student. Thank God I had a lot of hockey talent.

I was a two-star athlete. I got looked over.

It all depends on the athlete. It all depends on if the bigger guys come out, and they become a Shaquille O'Neal, or if they become a Porzingis...You don't ever lose sight of those type of players, even though the game has changed.

I recognized from a young age that I wasn't a football player; I played football.

There's always room for quality players in a team. The trick as a manager is to figure out how to bring the best out of your team.