Eric Dier Quotes

The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.

I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.

I think sports are extremely beneficial for our youth. They parallel life in so many ways.

Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

Kids in sports - it makes such an impact in life with the lessons that you learn.

My main goal when I talk to groups is to educate families on the physical and mental health benefits that playing sports provide young girls. It's not just about going out there and having fun. That's a part of playing sports, but a big chunk of it is all the other things that sports give you to help you become a much more whole, better person.

Sports not only build better athletes but also better people.

Being a lifelong athlete, I am a firm believer that I am who I am today because of sports. Not only did it give me structure and a solid foundation, but it gave me a sense of failure and how to overcome failure.

I know what sport has given to me in my life, what opportunities I've had and the lessons I've learned about myself and about life.

I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.

I know when I have kids, when I'm older, I'm going to encourage them to play sports because I think it teaches you a lot. It teaches you discipline, teamwork, and that there's really no 'I' in team.

We're all about trying to teach the kids life through basketball.

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.

Youth sports could not exist without millions of volunteers and modestly paid coaches who teach our children how to skate and catch and dribble and also how to get along with others.

You must relate athletic experiences to life.

I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity - all the things you want. It's a pretty good metaphor for life.

Football helped me tremendously, and that's why I want the sport to stay because it's so valuable. It's helped me be a better physician today, certainly. I've learned discipline. I've learned focus, teamwork, communication.

There's something about that 15- to 18-year-old boy, the time of their life that you can really impact them, not only on the field but off the field and still get the competitiveness that I love.

I try and focus on the youth coming up, and I think tennis is a great sport regardless of how far you make it: just, obviously, a lot of good life lessons.

I think sports is good for goal setting, and I think it teaches you some important values.

The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool.