Ross Butler Quotes

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

I think there are some players born to play ball.

I am a pretty tough guy. I'm an old hockey player.

It's not the norm, I guess, to see someone as aggressive as me being more or less very athletic. You see me running, having a big, violent hit, it's going to look bad, but that's the natural ability I've been given. Why would I let it run to the wayside and not use it?

People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

A lot of coaches have come up to me and liked the way I played.

My parents were athletes; they met at a track meet: they were runners.

A college athlete is going to be competitive. You don't get to that level if you're not.

Almost any football play, even an off-tackle slant by a running back, offers the balletic beauty of athletic skill and the punishing drama of physical collision.

I will miss the day to day stuff because I love coaching. I love being out on the pitch.

Since my early days, I've been used to playing with older boys and strong defenders.

I always get made fun of by my teammates for my huge calves, but I'm like, 'they make me strong and fast!'

We are a great fit, and I'm excited about the chance to influence a new generation of young footballers alongside Warrior.

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

I had a little bit of expectations just to be not terrible, because you can't be named so similar to a sport and not be at least adequate at that sport. I don't think there's been expectations to be really good, because my parents never put that kind of pressure on me, but I had to be at least decent.

The bigger, stronger, faster and meaner my players are, the better I coach.

As far as I can judge, English football is not for everybody. You need to have the lungs for it, you need to have the strength for it.

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If you were good at tennis, you were a star in my dad's world.

Physically I was not strong enough to play at Celtic and I know myself it was not my best time as a football player, for sure.

I played my first game of adult cricket at about eight or nine when the fifth team were short and picked me to field and bat at No 11. From then I just got the bug and wanted to play as often as possible.