Nicole Gale Anderson Quotes

For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about.

I mean, this is basketball, you have a lot of different teammates and you move around a lot, to find true friends is something special.

I love this game so much and enjoy being with the guys so much on the court.

That's what is cool about football: you build life-long relationships.

I'll miss the competitive side and the camaraderie of being around the players and competing each and every day.

People don't understand how it feels to be with a guy who you call your teammate and you're with more than your family during the course of a season.

Solitary pursuits like playing video games and skateboarding can't compete with the thrill of mobbing a teammate as he scores the winning run - nor do they end with a postgame trip to Dairy Queen.

It's always hard to find the best friends in the locker room because we are all competing against each other - but the real friends you are going to definitely find off the court because we are competitors in between.

By the nature of the sport and the danger we face daily, we are very close knit. Some of us have spent most of our lives together. To give you an example, having spent two decades sitting next to Richard Johnson and seeing him virtually every day, I have probably spent more time with him than I have my family, and he the same.

I think almost every player has a few very good friends on tour. Mine are: Yves Allegro, Roger Federer, Michael Lammer, and Ivo Klec.

You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.

One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

I love preseason games. They are fun to me because you get to go out there with guys that are on the NFL field for the first time and playing against guys who are going to be on the field for the first time.

My best memories are because I was on teams I love - even going back to being a kid. Not just in the NBA.

When you - when you play golf with somebody, you spend four hours or more walking with somebody, usually, you learn something about them that you didn't know before.

We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there.

In summer, my Sundays are often taken up with cricket. I play with a bunch of other over-competitive and overenthusiastic guys who I have known for a very long time.

I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that.

It's fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system.

Gymnastics demands so much of our time. We train all week and travel and compete on weekends. The people you're surrounded by really become your second family, your best friends, your sisters. My coach was like a second mother for me.

I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.

It's just good to be back in the locker room.

There's ego in all of us rugby players.

I love to play the game, love to be around the rink, and love to joke around with my teammates and have some fun.