Branch Rickey Quotes

I mean the game is just, everybody talks about baseball but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

And if I want to get involved in choosing sides, I usually pick hockey or football.

The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

I originally was more into baseball and football, but being in Los Angeles, you just couldn't help but to fall in love with the game of basketball because they had such a winning tradition.

Football is getting bigger but ice hockey is still the biggest sport back home.

There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.

Everybody is a football senator for a while, but it is a much shorter season and there are not that many teams that are on top, and baseball is just built into the American psyche.

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

My parents didn't want me to do this. My dad, when I told him I wanted to wrestle, he told me no, if you're going to play any sports, play baseball.

I really want to play in Chelsea.

The game of football requires attention constantly. If you miss one play, you can miss a lot of action - unlike some other sports.

I'd love to go to Russia and silence that crowd and give the Russian fans something to cry about.

I had more offers in football than baseball.

Hockey was my favorite sport my whole life until I played football.

I dabbled in football myself until the age of 14, but I didn't have as much love for the sport as I did track and field. I would never have been good enough to take it to the highest level.

Playing for the Giants for four years, you had this idea that the Jets are the other team, and then, going to Miami and playing in the same division, you learned to hate them as well.

Baseball is a game of geometry, while football is a game of explosive emotion. Every emotion known to mankind is in that 60 minutes - pride, pain, dedication, satisfaction, fear.

I've definitely seen a lot of good players since I've came to Australia and I've definitely seen a lot of players that could easily play in the Championship in England.

I really enjoy tennis, but football's the game for me.

Baseball didn't really fit my personality as well as football does.

In baseball, you have to remain calm, cool, and collected. In football, you can let out a little anger sometimes. It was a fun game, and I liked it, but I knew in my heart I was going to play baseball.

I wouldn't give up European football. It's very enjoyable.

It's easier to make the NFL than WWE.

I talked to a few schools about playing football, but I had already pretty much made my mind up. I fell in love with baseball at a young age, and I knew that that's what I wanted to do.

I watched the Olympics as a kid. It would be fun to try to win a medal. If I could swap Olympic gold for a US PGA Championship? I'd take the Major every time.