Dave Barry Quotes

For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

You've got Jon Jones, for instance. That guy is the best, one of the best fighters in the world, but he's a cheater.

It's football. Sometimes it's unfair.

If you look at the Olympic Games as a whole, if we would say we didn't want to interject politics into the games, then why are we using nation's flags? Why don't we use one Olympic flag to encompass all the Olympians, as opposed to being separatists in terms of China versus Russia or Russia versus the United States? Why don't we just say man versus man?

I had a chance to play against the USA teams when I was a player. I wasn't on any USA team but scrimmaging against them and playing against them was a highlight.

In the World Cup, you have to respect every team.

You can ask any player: I never had any problem with any French team-mate.

My childhood closet was ornamented with U.S. jerseys of World Cups spanning the nineties and two-thousands - some of my favorite memories are from summers when, with a ball under my foot and a jersey on my back, I watched the U.S. team go up against the world's best players in the largest sporting event on Earth.

I think England has got some great players.

The World Cup has been life-changing, for many reasons.

Going to the Olympics would have been great.

Ask a receiver, can we take his gloves off because he's catching the ball too well? Nobody is going to be overly happy about that.

In my early England days, there was a bit of tension with captain Nasser Hussain.

I dream of playing in the English league.

I have captained India in two World Cup finals. I definitely want to win the World Cup before I retire.

Soccer may not explain the world or even contain the world. But it makes the world a slightly happier place.

My message to fans... I'm running clean.

I enjoy playing at Tottenham and England as well.

Nothing has done more to bring people of different races and different backgrounds together than athletics, certainly more than politicians have done. It's why the Greeks invented the Olympics.

There is not a day I wake up and do not think of the World Cup.

I never played in a World Cup. I wasn't good enough.

Opponents know how to get the fouls and it's gone against me a couple of times.

There are cricket-loving people here, much like in Pakistan. Overall, I've enjoyed a lot playing in India in my cricketing career.

I want to be the world's number one one-day player; I want to win a World Cup, win the championship with Lancashire - those are my motivations.

Every country is different, every league is different - all the culture.