John Stockton Quotes

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.

Football was really my least favorite sport and the last sport that I ended up picking up as a kid. My dad started me off with baseball, which most kids did at that time. I really enjoyed basketball. That was my favorite sport.

Having a father as a football and a baseball coach, I grew up around college baseball players, college football players, like, I just knew sports my whole life.

I got kicked out of the league because I had a hard time sustaining at the quarterback position.

I'm happy because I won't have to train again, or travel or sit in team hotels.

Everyone knows the game is about the players.

I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually.

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

I was a jock.

My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.

I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.

I started playing football in a school back in Sao Vicente when I was five years old, going towards six. Those were my first steps, among those kids, and then I kept going.

I think the main thing about football is confidence.

I was a big kid and a big athlete, but let's be honest: I don't know diddly about football.

Since I was a D-team backup quarterback in seventh grade, I've loved the game.

We have many good keepers in Germany, and that's why you can never let your form dip.

That's how it works, it's football. They need you or they don't.

I started to play in the fourth grade and didn't score for, like, a whole year.

I was eight years old and I was playing rugby for my local club.

I had never played a team sport when I was younger.

I started playing at six. I was at a school always playing football with my friends. But I was always bored at home. I asked my father if he could start me in a football team. He took me to a team called Rupel Boom, who were playing in the fourth division in Belgium, and I stayed there for four years.

Football is played by 11 players, and unfortunately, every time, it happens that some do well, and some do worse.

I played all sports coming up in Texas. I played basketball, football, baseball, ran track. All through high school I did all of that.

I've been playing this position since I was about 9 years old. For me, it's just, 'Come out here and be the best quarterback I can be.'