Global Sports Quotes

Ronda Rousey is a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, and anything that Ronda Rousey does is going to come with extreme scrutiny because she is such a pivotal figure in not only American sports but in global sports as well.

My good friend Yao Ming was the first big player in the NBA to come from China. He gave himself to the game and was successful. That inspired the NBA to invest more and do more for the game of basketball. We're building academies not just in China, but in India, Africa, Europe and South America as well.

I have always loved the Summer Olympics.

I've played matches in Mexico, Canada and the United States. The people of North America have always welcomed me.

The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call 'the good old days.' Fans want the best, wherever they come from.

Mitt Romney will travel to London where he will attend the Olympics opening ceremony. Of course it's going ot be weird when they're announcing all the countries, and he's like 'Got a bank account there, got one there, two bank accounts there.'

The world is filled with great sporting events.

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people. That is why it is so important that the FIFA World Cup will, for the first time ever, be hosted on the African continent in 2010. We feel privileged and humbled that South Africa has been given this singular honour of being the African host country.

If you win the Champions League, you become known across the globe, but the World Cup has always thrown up new stars and developments.

Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.

The World Cup is a truly International event.

The IOC are the guardians of the Olympic ideal.

Houston is my team, always and forever. But with the new TV packages, it's so easy to watch every league in the world, and my overseas fandom is driven by the American guys. If Sunderland's on TV, I'll watch Jozy Altidore. I try to watch Geoff Cameron at Stoke. When Clint Dempsey was at Tottenham, I watched a lot of his games.

Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.

I think I'm being conservative when I say there are more people playing soccer in the United States than in 90% of the world's other countries, probably 95%.

I think one thing Liberty finds frustrating is a lot of this business is conducted through the media. That's something they're not used to with American sport. There's that constant comparison of America sport and franchises verses Formula One - American sport works in America, it doesn't work globally.

Try and understand: cricket was played by Commonwealth countries only; now it has started in other countries as well, and I am proud of that.

I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.

Football is about as popular as it can be in the U.S. The upside, the expansion and growth lies overseas.

The Olympic movement simply cannot allow the Russians to become estranged, because Russia is a vital part of the world sports community, in the sense of having nuclear missiles.

My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.

I'd love to see a global competition other than the World Cup.

Global sports tournaments have a range of benefits that go far beyond the games themselves. They can transform the image of a country or a region. They bring people together and reveal new possibilities to a nation's youth.

Madrid is Madrid. There's nothing more to say. It's the biggest team in the world.

American leagues - baseball, ice hockey, American football and basketball - you are the best. But in a global sport like soccer, you're not.