Gervinho Quotes

I've learnt so much from playing football: I love football, and that's what I do. I enjoy myself, and I'm just trying to be happy.

I just want to get better and I love football.

I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

Regardless of who you are, what sport you chose, or how much success you achieved, playing the game is all about getting you ready for life.

Basketball has given me so many opportunities, and it's something that's opened the world to me and allowed me to travel really all over the world.

Basketball has given me everything.

Anyone who's kicked a ball with their mates and played for their local club knows the buzz of being part of a team, playing without fear or pressure.

I wake up every day doing what I love to do. I love to play basketball.

As a young girl, football is where I met the people who, to this day, are my best friends. It is also where I began to learn about the important relationship between hard work, teamwork, and fun.

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical fitness and mental prowess.

When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

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 know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me.

Softball has given me so much in life. It's taught me the kind of person I want to be, and given me a sweet sisterhood. It even led me to my husband.

I didn't understand anything about playing baseball. I started playing, and it was enjoyable. Most of my life, I played with older people on my team, in my league. I learned a lot about life. Every day in my life, I learned something new from somebody.

I want to do everything I can to play baseball.

I love to play, and I love the sport, but I don't play it to gain popularity.

Football is my life and when I am happy on the pitch I am happy off the field as well.

For me, I just set little goals for myself and stay on that kind of track and surround myself with positive people along with my teammates. I just kind of have my goals and my dreams, and this is something that we've all been working for our entire lives, so it is kind of easy to wake up and want to better myself every day towards that goal.

Basketball to me is more than a passion or a paycheck - it is the tool I use to try to have an impact in the world.