Maya Moore Quotes

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

At seven, I played centre-back. When you're so young, though, it's more to enjoy the training and to get a feel for the game. It's not heavy on tactics of a position. We were playing on a half pitch, seven against seven or eight against eight, so they say you're a centre-back, but it's not like the real definition.

At 4, I joined a summer rec team called the Sugar Bears.

I grew up playing every sport.

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.

I grew up a huge jock, a lot of basketball and football. We had a pond in my back yard growing up, and we played a lot of hockey, too. I loved to score goals.

My generation put in a lot more hours playing football after school than kids today. These days, all the football these kids play, they play at their clubs, so the clubs need to work seriously on the basic skills.

Like many kids, I grew up sports-minded.

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

When I was 6 years old, I played on a coed indoor team. We were called the Cosmos. And then, after that, when I was 7, I played on an all-girls club team.

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

From the time I started playing... When I tried out for a team in sixth grade and on - I was always starting through high school.

I've got a lot of very fond memories playing football from the ages of four.

When kids start playing basketball, they all think about scoring.

To be honest my first memories are getting to know players. I remember being on the bus probably like 3, 4, 5 years old, and my dad would always say go sit with the players in the back.

Oh man... growing up, I played everything. I played football, basketball, baseball.

If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera.

My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

In the summertime, I played Little League baseball; football in the fall; basketball in the winter.

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

I played Little League in junior high and high school.

I played softball. I was on an all-star team. I traveled with the team. I loved it.

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

Ever since I was young, I played sports.