I wasn't that excited about football when I was young, but it did become my passion.
Baseball is my first love, and it's what I know, and it's what I'll do until I can't do it anymore, and I'm still hungry to do that.
I probably don't have any room in my mind for anything but football. My dad tells me I'm a total vegetable outside of just knowing football.
To me, baseball is not a game, but a religion.
I have no regrets about the amount of work I put into the sport. This is what I needed to do with my life.
Basketball is a game. Baseball is a religion. Baseball is American.
Sports is, somehow, a religion.
Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.
When I was three or four, only football was in my head. I went 10 years, and nothing changed - only football, football, football. The strange thing is, nobody played football in my family before.
There's hasn't been a day in my life since I was 9 years old that I haven't touched a basketball or done something connected with basketball.
I'm a Napoli player and I'll give 100 percent to win something with this shirt.
Football has always been my great love. I slept with a ball - really! Even when I started going out with Bouchra - ouha! She must have thought, 'What's this...?'
You have to sacrifice time with your family, your time as a teenager. You don't experience life like any other, outside of football. When you go to uni, you can't live the uni lifestyle. But I've never, ever thought about quitting football.
I have given my life to the game and to the sport.
I do appreciate a woman who has a passion for sports and knows their stuff.
Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.
I don't want to be away from wrestling even a little.
In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.
My father has this insane, all-consuming passion for sports.
A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.
As an athlete, when you are on that field and the fans get really engaged and you can feel their energy and passion and true love of the game, it is absolutely a spiritual experience.
Waterpolo is my life. Our relationship is that of predetermination I'll never be better at anything than waterpolo and that is why it is my duty to pursue this sport as long as I can, and to the best of my abilities.
For me, Jews and football go together like a horse and carriage.
Turkish people are very emotional, very passionate about football, really want to see their team do well.
