Justin Bieber Quotes

I can play basketball, run track, and play volleyball, so yeah, I've always been an athlete at heart.

I was athletic growing up and that was, of course, a big part of my household, but it wasn't something that I was necessarily passionate about.

I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.

Since childhood, I was ingrained into sports. It plays an important part in my life.

Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically.

I grew up on basketball, volleyball, that sort of thing. For me, track and field was a whole 'nother beast.

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

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 grew up playing every sport.

I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.

I come from a family of four brothers, so I like sports.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

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.

Growing up, we played sports nonstop. I mean every single day. As soon I got done with breakfast, I was ready to go.

I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.

I was always an athlete; my grandfather and my dad are basketball players, and I played sports my whole life.

I have always been around sports my whole life.

I'm a jock.

We all played sports, my brothers, my daddy, my uncles. That's all we had.

I played a lot of sports growing up. I played soccer.

In Brazil, U.S., Japan and some other countries, there are many sports being played and I hope that will be the case in India as well. Sports is good for the country.

Competition is great for everyone. Sports can teach you so much at an early age, including camaraderie and sportsmanship. Competition aspect is something I've always been big on - I always wanted to compete in something. It was swimming for many years, then I moved on to basketball. I had to find a way to channel my competitive energy, so I'm lucky that basketball worked out for me.

Sports must become an indispensable and inseparable part of our social life. Competitiveness is just a by-product.

Sport is an essential element of education.