Love Of Game Quotes

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

If you're starting to lose the love of the game, it means you're not going to work as hard.

When I started playing in Sweden, there was nobody watching. No one knew who I was, so I was just playing for the love of the game. And after my first season, my coach came up to me and said, 'Of all the people you're the one who smiles the most on the field,' and that was the biggest compliment I ever received.

Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

No matter what people say outside of football, we don't work for money, we work for the love of the game and the money is something that follows.

The money thing, that's money, I don't play this for money, I play for the love of the game.

People didn't put pressure on me. I just played for the love of the game.

I don't live for glamor and I don't care for fame, I'm in it for the love of the game

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.

I truly love the game; I wouldn't be playing if I didn't love the game. I'm not getting paid astronomical dollars; it's truly for the love of the game of basketball.

I never played the game for money and attention. I love football, and I've had a blast.

The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.

As long as I feel the love of the game and my health is good, I'm going to play. I don't want to be one of these guys who stays too long or regrets leaving early. Football has been great to me.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

We played for the love of the game; there were few holdouts. We wanted to pitch every day; to win more games than the other guy - not for the money, but for the glory of winning.

Really, those 60 minutes when I am on the field is my time to enjoy myself, and I don't have to worry about anything, play the game that I love.

I'm a Hall of Famer and I'm still fighting for it because I love the game and I love to play.

Although more teams are going full-time professional and there's more money involved, our main incentive is simply to play for the love of the game.

I play for the love of football, not for the money.

I know I make a lot of money, but for me - I came from nothing, so it's always been about the love of the game.

I would never play an extra year for money. I play the game because I love it. I just so happen to get paid. If I don't feel I still enjoy the game, I can care less what a year is worth. I'm not going to play the game just because of money.

To me, it was never about what I accomplished on the football field. It was about the way I played the game. I played the game with a lot of determination, a lot of poise, a lot of pride and I think what you saw out there...was an individual who really just loved the game.

I want to be a professional athlete who plays for the love of the game, never quits trying to give my best and is a good role model for all of the kids who look up to baseball players.

A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.

I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.