Alternative Sports Quotes

I got into a car accident and couldn't play baseball, hockey, and basketball. We stuck with golf for a little while, and it's panned out. I think it was a blessing in disguise.

I didn't grow up playing football. I wanted to be a basketball player.

The booing and the drama help make the Olympics interesting, but at what cost? When will people finally get tired of it and start watching the X-Games or competitive tire rolling instead?

I can't surf, so I swim. It's the best workout I've ever known because it works your entire body.

Outside of basketball, I really love to bowl.

Basketball would have been the natural sport to play, but it's a little too aggressive for me, so instead I dabbled in volleyball and some good old-fashioned Roller Derby.

It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.

The USFL appealed to me, because it was different.

I decided I really wanted to go into something athletic. But I was 23, starting later in life, so wrestling was one of the few things available.

I didn't want really to be involved in a normal soccer club.

I never really wanted Big Air to be in the Olympics.

I started playing street hockey, but there were tennis courts near my house, and it was my father who suggested I try. I don't really know why.

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.

ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.

Every wrestling show is now designed to be the greatest show ever. In contrast, the NWA show is different. It didn't tire people out to watch, something was allowed to register. It is the exact antithesis of planned, big budget, choreographed, scripted sports entertainment, and that is what makes the show so different.

I wouldn't particularly say I liked rugby but it got us playing football.

Prior to Box, I was a professional wiffleball player and then a professional poker player.

If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.

Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.

Ring of Honor has always been a company that focuses on youths and being a true alternative.

Professional wrestling in Europe is more of a sub-culture. It is not as popular as it is here in the United States. The people that were drawn to it were also people that were into sub-culture, hardcore sub-culture. It is basically an alternative scene that is sub-culture.

My mother wouldn't let me play football because she was afraid I would get hurt, so I played flag football.

My high school didn't have a football team; we just had like a surf team, because I grew up in Encinitas, California, which is the ultimate place where everyone skated or surfed, so it was a very different culture. It was, like, cool to be the art kid.

In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball.