Competitive Athletics Quotes

I love badminton, and representing China is an honour for me.

I used to play badminton in winter.

I've been playing semi-professional football since I was 14, really.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

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.

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

I played rugby in the winter, cricket in the summer, and for a brief period was on the books at Cardiff City. Athletics was only sports day for me. In fact, I never really liked it. I was never too keen on a sport that didn't have a ball at your feet.

Professional sports are something they can't control.

I think it's when I won the Youth Olympics I thought, 'I can really get gold in London.'

As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter.

In college, I probably lost a total of about 11 games, and then I came to the Celtics and in my first three weeks we went on a nine-game losing streak.

I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport.

I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.

I was able to do Classics, the U.S. national championships and the Pan American Games and feel like I improved with each meet, but I was still struggling with a lot of residual pain from the two surgeries.

While swimming was always a spotlight sport, I was, if you will, sort of present at the creation when gymnastics became the new star lead-off hitter.

I was all for basketball, and I made the decision to play tennis.

Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.

Sports is entertainment.

My kids are athletic, but they don't run.

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.

Anyone who's been the Olympic trials before is a veteran.

I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyway.

I am up to the speed of the Premier League, and that was what I was looking for.

I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.