Erma Bombeck Quotes

Baseball didn't really fit my personality as well as football does.

Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.

I liked football a lot, too, but basketball clearly is my first love.

I was enjoying my football, even though it wasn't really going well. That's when I said to my dad, who as a New Zealander was very keen on me playing cricket, that I would choose football.

I like English football a lot.

I really enjoy tennis, but football's the game for me.

I talked to a few schools about playing football, but I had already pretty much made my mind up. I fell in love with baseball at a young age, and I knew that that's what I wanted to do.

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.

I played football and lacrosse in high school. They wanted me to play football at Amherst, which I did not do because my schedule was full enough as it was. But over the course of my student days, I played pretty much every sport out there.

Whatever you want to call it, they have all these names for these coverages, I've seen them. Like those linemen coming out to jam me on the line of scrimmage. A lot of crazy stuff.

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 originally was more into baseball and football, but being in Los Angeles, you just couldn't help but to fall in love with the game of basketball because they had such a winning tradition.

I played rugby in the winter, cricket in the summer, and for a brief period was on the books at Cardiff City. Athletics was only sports day for me. In fact, I never really liked it. I was never too keen on a sport that didn't have a ball at your feet.

I really like live football. I like the English style, which is very straightforward.

People ask me, how was university; I say it was boring and it wasn't for me. But if you wanna go, that's cool. I'm not out to lead people astray, but everyone has their vices.

I wasn't that excited about football when I was young, but it did become my passion.

I do not like the red carpet; I prefer the green pitch.

My mom wanted me to play baseball. She didn't want me to play basketball.

I played baseball, football, basketball my whole life growing up.

I love football, so there's nothing that's going to replace that. But golf, it's a second.

Hockey was my favorite sport my whole life until I played football.

Marseille would be the only place that I'd like to play in France, but I think it's not realistic.

I didn't like watching football on TV. It was always so boring to me. Why sit in front of the screen, when you could go outside and play the game for real?

I dabbled in football myself until the age of 14, but I didn't have as much love for the sport as I did track and field. I would never have been good enough to take it to the highest level.