Kevin Anderson Quotes

We're all about trying to teach the kids life through basketball.

Kids in sports - it makes such an impact in life with the lessons that you learn.

And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.

I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity - all the things you want. It's a pretty good metaphor for life.

If I wasn't doing this, I'd be working in a chippy. Cricket can change your life. It can teach you a lot about discipline and life in general.

What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost. Consider the contributions in the field of public life, business, law, medicine, and the military of those who actively participated in athletics.

Sports is one of the keys to my life. It definitely kept me out of a lot of trouble and gave me a lot of discipline.

The greatest thing about sports, to me, is just the crossover into everyday life.

I know what sport has given to me in my life, what opportunities I've had and the lessons I've learned about myself and about life.

Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.

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.

The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.

I know when I have kids, when I'm older, I'm going to encourage them to play sports because I think it teaches you a lot. It teaches you discipline, teamwork, and that there's really no 'I' in team.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life.

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.

We're trying to give a young man life lessons - sacrifice, commitment, teamwork, self-confidence, self-esteem. That's what this sport does for kids.

Football helped me build confidence on and off the field and taught me to grow through moments of success and disappointment.

I have always said I want to work harder so I can develop, learn, grow, and improve. I love to play football, and when I come on the pitch, I want to do my best to help the team. It's up to the coach the position I play.

Being a lifelong athlete, I am a firm believer that I am who I am today because of sports. Not only did it give me structure and a solid foundation, but it gave me a sense of failure and how to overcome failure.

It's not always about getting better on the basketball court. This game teaches you how to become a better person as well. It pushes you into the team concept.

Football has taught me so much.

Football has done so much for me, given me friends, family, given me life lessons that now I can use in the operating room or just as a leader.

A lot of the lessons that are taught in football will promote success in anything you get into after football; for me, it just happens to be music. Being disciplined. Good character. Trying to do the right thing, and working hard.

I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.