Vetrimaaran Quotes

I wanted to make a film that wouldn't just appeal to Formula One fans. That's what the great sports documentaries do - 'Hoop Dreams,' 'When We Were Kings' - they're human dramas first, sport second, if at all.

I love football movies.

In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.

It was no accident that I made 'Hoop Dreams' because it concerned a sport that I loved and hoped would be my dream, however far-fetched that turned out to be. Because of the success of that film, Hollywood pigeonholed me as a sports biopic guy, which led to 'Prefontaine' and two cable sports films.

There are great fans in Chicago. I think you'd rather have them recognize than not recognize you.

The self-image of many contemporary sportswriters seems to depend on maintaining that were it not for sports, athletes would be pumping gas, if they were not sticking up the gas station.

Nobody cares about '60 Minutes.' Everybody cares about the Jaguars. Isn't that amazing?

I would love to do a sports biopic. I love sports and I think it would be amazing to be a part of a true story and play an athlete.

The farther I go East in the U.S. the more I get recognized because of more sports crazy the East Coast is.

I go overseas, and all the soccer players come to me, like, 'Yeah bro, we always play 'Mo Bamba.'' It's crazy.

I'm an athlete, and I have been interested in sports films.

Everybody rips on Miami fans all of the time. We're a loving people. You know, we like to go out and we like to party and we like our sports and entertainment.

Everything changes with time. I am not so experienced enough to analyze what the people love in me.

I watch the Premier League, the Spanish and Dutch leagues, and a little bit of the German league.

We live in a society that has ever-changing values and ever-changing standards and ever-changing criteria to determine who is a superstar or not. If you want to be a superstar, if you want to main event, if you want to profit in the entertainment business, you have to go with those trends and spearhead new trends.

It is great to hear that Italian football now has many supporters in Asia.

Cities like Chicago and Philadelphia make the NFL what it is. They give the league its soul.

I'm all for a great fan environment to cheer us if we're home and boo us if we're the opposing team. But some fans are over the line with the stuff they say, the stuff they do.

I think what's bad is that there aren't centers in the All-Star voting anymore.

I was as much at first probably against Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather as anyone else but... as soon as I turned off the purity of the combat sports thing, this is a business. Guys, we're all trying to make a living, we're all trying to entertain people and guess what, it's the second-biggest PPV in history regardless of how you feel about it.

They watch the Premier League everywhere in Africa.

I'm a big Birmingham City supporter and seeing the fans dressed as Peaky Blinders is one of my proudest moments.

Canadians see the Americans as cousins. We love the same sports: Canadians are crazy about baseball and basketball, and our beloved game of hockey is played all over the U.S.

The NFL is part of the pop culture landscape, so sports fans don't bat an eye when you stop in the middle of a piece to talk about a new movie.