We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.
I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.
Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.
It is exciting to have two sports teams close to where you live.
When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
Everyone in Norman knew our block. There were five kids in our neighborhood who started at QB in high school. We had Division-I athletes from a number of sports available to play at any moment.
All sports for all people.
I played Little League and in high school. I played more over the years whenever there was a pick-up game... usually softball.
I'm doing things in Manchester with the Trafford Sports Park in partnership with the Manchester United foundation and I'm also doing things in Newcastle as well. It's something I'm passionate about.
Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
No lie, just had one of the best times of my life at Rucker park..wow! I love NYHarlem waddup.
Growing up in Quebec, we were always playing sports. Your first athletic competition was against the kids living on your block.
I want to create as many opportunities as possible for people inclined towards sports.
Boston is an unbelievable city, and for any athlete looking to become involved in the community, this is the perfect place.
It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.
Everybody plays basketball in D.C. Not on a team. Just around the way. Anywhere. I actually loved basketball.
Almost every football player played on the streets. And also, a lot of people not ending up as football players play on the streets. It's the beginning of a lot of social gathering.
Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!
Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.
Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it.
You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.
