Victoria Coren Mitchell Quotes

I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport.

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

I started playing football in a school back in Sao Vicente when I was five years old, going towards six. Those were my first steps, among those kids, and then I kept going.

I hated sports at school. Almost everyone did.

I played football until my sophomore year of high school, then I stopped.

I played cricket at primary school but hardly at all at high school. I was more of a footballer.

We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live.

I played football growing up in junior high and high school.

When people say that you kind of just get - you know, just feel like a little buzzed or dazed or had your bell rung - they consider that a concussion. I wouldn't. But if that is considered a concussion, I would say any football player at least records 50 to 100 in the course of a year.

I wasn't into sports when I was younger. I was one of those kids who always tried to get a note from the doctor to say I had a cold so I didn't have to go play hockey in bad weather and be miserable.

We're showing a situation that these kids are caught in and being forced to do but the violence is not glorified. Most of the kids in there are not wanting to be doing it.

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

I think every school in the world should have a sports program.

As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow.

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.

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.

My belief is that sports in school is not an extracurricular activity.

The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games.

In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school, it just didn't exist there.