Shahid Afridi Quotes

I love the game and played from 13 to 35 for almost every single day.

I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.

I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.

I've played so many games of football now, and even though it is at a higher level, at the end of the day, football is football. You are just playing with better players.

I've played for 15 years and played in five major tournaments. I know what it gives me in terms of the joy, in terms of the love for the game. But I'm done with it.

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

Honestly, the only thing I loved when I was a kid was basketball. I was an athlete when I was a kid, and that was it.

I was a huge athlete as a kid. I was on every sports team.

By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.

Success in football is impossible without a good school.

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.

I was an athlete when I was growing up.

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

The time I've spent in professional Premiership club rugby has been invaluable.

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

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years.

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 was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat.

I played football all my life throughout high school and ran track.

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.