Lin Dan Quotes

If cricket can be so glamorous and lucrative, I don't see why wrestling should lag behind.

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

Professional sports play a very important part in American life and a very important part in the American imagination. Anybody who goes to the movies these days sees just what an important part of the American mind sports comprise. If they are so important and have such a hold on the minds and imaginations of children, then this ought to be a focal point of our efforts.

It's an honour to be an Ambassador for DStv. Their passion for promoting sports is unrivalled across Africa.

I hope wholeheartedly that badminton will be as popular and respected as tennis one day.

NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.

We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game.

I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

I've done sport for a long time.

I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.

Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.

I play a lot of sports. I played football for 12 years, I like tennis, I surf, I snowboard, and I ski. I always like to do an activity.

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses

One of London's massive strengths is its sporting prowess, its great football teams.

Sports is a huge entertainment now, and we need to provide that entertainment for the fans because that's what they're looking for.

I played professional tennis for about six years and I played football and handball in school as well.

I can't remember what times I used to do in training because I always loved football and didn't have any interest in an athletics career. But I was always the quickest.

I did everything - swimming, dancing, and badminton as well as tennis. It was always tennis that I really loved, though.

The single most important thing that sports fans want is competition building to a meaningful championship.

I love watching the Premier League.

Women's badminton has become so competitive.

Nothing comes close to the IPL, to be honest.

In games, you notice there's more sprints than in Bundesliga. It takes a while to get used to.

I played all sports coming up in Texas. I played basketball, football, baseball, ran track. All through high school I did all of that.