Competitive Sport Quotes

Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing.

Football is a wonderful game which can be cruel at times.

Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form.

I wrestled in front of seven people one time.

Football is a violent, competitive game. That's the way it was always meant to be played. You are supposed to play with an edge. You are actually supposed to impose your will on the other person to win.

Wrestling is one of those things that make me emotional.

This is a highly competitive sport, and we are all very passionate when we are on the track.

I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity - all the things you want. It's a pretty good metaphor for life.

I've played a lot of people in ping-pong. I had a table growing up.

Tennis is not really a traditional Olympic sport.

I didn't realize until I was doing commentary what a gladiator-like competition tennis is - other than no one dies. The crowd is waiting for the players to come, and they walk through the tunnel, and they get on the court, and they get out their rackets, their weapons, and now they start.

There's no medals for trying. This isn't like eighth grade where everybody gets a trophy. We are in a professional sport, and it is competitive to win. That's what we do.

To have Serena in the Wimbledon final, I think, is the hardest match you can have.

For me, it's an easy way to make money. I'm just hitting a ball over a net. Of course, I've grown up with it. It's a part of me. It's all I really know how to do.

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.

The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.

Football is a reaction sport.

Golf courses are beautiful, it's good for the soul and it gets out the anger... well, if you don't care about the score then you won't have a heart attack.

I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.

Squash is my passion, and it is in my blood.

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.

The reality is being an Olympic windsurfer is bloody hard work, and it is a huge commitment.