Michael Showalter Quotes

If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

Football rewards the guys that are in great condition.

I played professional tennis for about six years and I played football and handball in school as well.

Football and boxing helped me immensely. Those sports helped me become dangerous.

Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it.

I used to practice at the hockey ground on synthetic surface while I was in the sports hostel, so Test cricket is certainly going to be a challenge for me.

I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team.

I would still like to get more athletic and have players that can really cover what's going on in the game.

You would not want me on your football team.

I definitely want to be known as an educated person as well as being a good football player.

During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.

Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.

You see so many different personalities and mind-sets in the world of sports, just like you do with actors.

I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more.

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I'm quite good at individual sports, but I was not good at team sports, so I wasn't good at baseball and football.

Growing up, I was always into sports - basketball and volleyball - but I wasn't really a runner.

The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

I grew up playing football and baseball.

First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.

I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.