Dual Sports Quotes

I just wanted to play baseball because I liked baseball. I never was giving up on football.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't expect to have success on the baseball field and the football field.

I was a bowler - left arm, smash it down as fast as I could. I did a lot of work with Damian D'Oliveira, and I probably had a chance of doing that for a living. But when I reached 16, I knew I couldn't carry on playing both football and cricket, and I was already in the Shrewsbury squad.

I'm a football player playing basketball.

Some athletes can master two sports, but most are only good at one.

Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.

I grew up a Michael Jordan fan; that was my first idol. But my true sports idol was Deion Sanders: he was the person I always wanted to be. I wanted to play two sports professionally, which would never happen, but to me, that was every kid's dream.

I was a wicket-keeper who opened the batting. Could I have made it? Hard to say. I probably wouldn't quite have been good enough. I might get back into it once I've finished with the football.

Norm Smith personally came and signed me up to the Melbourne Football Club. The fact that I then played cricket for Melbourne Cricket Club - the footy club didn't like it that much.

I'm definitely not a track guy playing football. I'm a football guy that just happens to jump really far.