Jonathan Agnew Quotes

I get paid to play football and show everything I've got.

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

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

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

It's not that I don't like cricket. I have played first class cricket and represented Delhi in the Ranji Trophy as a spinner, but at the same time my inclination to become an actor was very strong.

As a kid, you just want to play football. For me one day it will end, but until the end I love getting the opportunity to go out there and play at a high level.

I was always a good athlete. I just gave up on football.

I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.

As a footballer I know what I'm good at and I've now embraced it.

If I can run, I'm not going to sit out any game. I'm here to play football, not to watch and collect a check.

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

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 am a kid who played university cricket, so to be around international cricket is a blessing.

I would never tell anybody to give up hockey - the great sports we have here - basketball, lacrosse - rugby coming into its own - we've got so many great team sports, and I say hold on to them.

I want to see if the player communicates with his teammates and how he responds to coaching. Another thing to remember is players' bodies can develop better than their skills.

I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.

I would love to play cricket today, with all - I am not just talking of money - the opportunity you get, the practice facilities, the amount of time you are able to put into preparation.

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track, and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am today and even how I think today.

I wanted to play sports my whole life. That's all I really wanted to do.

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.

I grew up playing every sport.

It wasn't until I was at 39 that I joined my first real hockey team. Which was great. I scored a couple of goals here and there, but I wasn't the most graceful thing you've ever seen.

I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.