Aljamain Sterling Quotes

Victories in sport do more to cement the nation than 100 political slogans.

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.

Canadians are all over the world. When they get a chance to support their team and show up, they've been doing it.

Yes, I understand that football and sports in America have been a way for us to get away from some of our most daunting moments. It's a way for us to bring the country together.

The national team has always lent its image to help Italy's problems over the years... The national team is more about uniting than dividing.

Sporting achievements bestow a sense of unification on the cultures and societies in which they take place and create an outpouring of nationalism and pride.

The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.

A weak, insecure nation needs sporting heroes, players larger than life on the cricketing field, who can transcend the limitations of their country and team.

When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.

It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.

Americans divide most sharply over what brings them together.

For a divided, balkanized America, it might take the looming-up of a rival power, the rise of a dark but all-too-plausible alternative, to remind us of who we are, and what we do not want to be.

It's the biggest thing in the world in many ways, football. People don't want to talk about politics. They don't want to talk about religion. They want to talk about football - wherever you go.

You're not just playing for one city in Toronto, you're playing for Vancouver, Montreal, Edmonton.

When I represent the Under-21s and sing the national anthem, there is no better feeling.

I think Canadians support their athletes a little better than the Australians do.

Finns love if their athletes do well, then they support.

One thing the Scottish boys want in the changing room is the bragging rights over the English lads.

This is America, man. To not have football would be un-American. It's part of our society, like soccer in Brazil.

Americans don't want to see our military become Republican or Democrat. Americans appreciate that our military belongs to all of us.

Obviously, I'd love to play for my country.