Chris Rock Quotes

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

I get too excited about football and rugby.

Funny thing about the volatile and biased French crowds. While they'd prefer to be cheering a countryman and giving his foreign opponent merry hell, if there was no Frenchman in the game, they'd always support a Continental player over an Englishman, an American, or an Australian.

The Olympics are in my blood and everybody knows how much I love my country.

Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?

This is America's Team and we are confident this outstanding group of athletes will make our country proud.

I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.

As an athlete, I've always been very proud to represent the United States.

I am as passionate about the England team as anyone.

It is one thing to play for your university. It is another to play for your country.

I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

I played team sport as a kid and loved it. I played basketball and football throughout high school into college in the intramurals and I loved it. There was nothing like a team.

I just enjoy going to the games, but if you're watching the Lakers play, it feels good to be rooting for the Lakers. You're on the winning end of things most of the time.

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.

When two players are playing with passion for their country, that's good to see.

You always try to fight someone from another country. But having said that, the public knows, everybody knows, when there's two Mexicans in the ring, there will be a war.

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

You have to play football to entertain the fans.

I played baseball, football, basketball my whole life growing up.

It's really exciting for me and my brothers to watch the World Cup.

I always laugh at Americans and their football.

Sometimes when people play for their country, I think there is that little bit of fear and pressure.