Thomas Hughes Quotes

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.

The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.

We grow up in New Zealand from a young age getting up at 3am to watch the All Blacks play South Africa or England, it's part of who we are. So to be an All Black now is amazing.

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

What does legacy mean? I never think or go there.

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

Football can generate excitement and bring people together.

For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about.

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

For those things which were done either by our fathers or ancestors, and in which we ourselves had no share, I can scarcely call our own.

For Americans, of course, it's football, basketball, and baseball. We live for it. In many ways, it sums up who we are. In Iran, it's all about wrestling. The patriotism toward their country comes out in the way they wrestle, so it makes sense why they're the best.

For me, football is more than a sport, just look at the impact it has on society.

The 'garra charrua' is something we're proud of, even if other people sometimes misunderstand it.

Our national identity is so interwoven with football.

French people love sport, and they love their national teams even more.

You've got to respect the game and you've got to respect what the people that have played have done for the game.

It takes a lifetime to build tradition.

Culture is coded wisdom

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

Let us celebrate the spirit of sport through the National Games

We have preserved the Book, and the Book has preserved us.

Honor the community you come from. Tell their stories.

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.

To deny this is to deny our own heritage, our own spirit, and our own souls.