Adolfo Cambiaso Quotes

I'm more of a hands-on person. I like working with young people from the standpoint of providing support for the grassroots programs. State, national and Olympic champions begin at a grassroots level.

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball.

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

I only started playing top football when I was 17 and a half.

The NBA is kind of where I've grown up, coming out of high school at 18.

I was still only 19 when I went to Scotland, but it was a good loan move for me to play those extra games.

I think that's vitally important, that we get players playing at a younger age group.

When you're growing up and thinking about being a footballer, you want to make as many caps and play as many games as you can.

I started wrestling professionally, I did my first television match at 16, but I was wrestling at country fairs and national armories when I was 14.

I was a very average player and became a trainer in Germany with a special club.

I was 18, I wanted to be a first-year pro.

I grew up playing football and baseball and moved on to play college baseball, and, you know, as a kid, my dream was to play professional baseball.

Ever since I was a young kid, I've been playing for an academy with scouts all over the world that are looking for top players to come in.

The young athletes are supposed to mature, to improve their personality.

Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

I will never play for the Miami Heat.

My parents were skeptical about me becoming a footballer and encouraged me to study.

I started playing professional basketball in 1971, and I played professionally for five seasons before going to Philadelphia.

Writing the book was a pretty cool thing to go through, it really made me think of how crazy a journey it really was for this kid from Redwood City, Calif. When I was 12 years old, I was practicing my signature, but did I ever think I'd be a two-time Super Bowl champ, playing on arguably one of the best franchises of all time with the best quarterback of all time, for the best coach of all time?

If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into it. If you're not, somebody else is. It's got to be all or nothing.

Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.