Bob Sheppard Quotes

Maybe I was an even better cricketer than a footballer.

In every position on the field, there's really strong competition.

My father was a really good athlete, so his pop-ups really were sky high. Eventually I learned how to judge them properly and catch them well. It was great training for when I started to play on teams, which I did all through school.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

I played American football, but I did my best work with baseball.

Honestly, I just kind of play ball. I guess I'm pretty good in the state of Florida.

When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.

I was born to play baseball.

I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.

You would not want me on your football team.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

I'm definitely not a football player, but I can play one for a season.

I would have loved to have been a cricketer.

One of the things I've learned is that baseball is something that happens over time.

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

I don't think I would have made it as a cricketer.

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

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

What position didn't I play last season?

Football players win football games.

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

The team with the best players wins.

We play very fine schools on any given day.

Continuity is important in sports.

The players are out here to help win games and to improve, not to make a movie. They're not actors. They're players.