National Sport Quotes

Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.

I am like the huge percentage of Indians who follow majorly cricket when it comes to sports.

Basketball is a game. Baseball is a religion. Baseball is American.

I know, in India, cricket is a religion, but I haven't had the time to follow it.

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.

When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

Hockey is the dream of all Swedes. They get the girls.

I do love cricket - it's so very English.

Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?

Baseball is America's pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States.

In Japan, skating is like NHL hockey in Canada or baseball in the U.S., so pushing the limit is very enticing. Skating is their lives.

Two things in India are religion - one is cricket, and one is movies - these are two things.

We all played in my family and cricket has always been in the blood.

I think it's fantastic to be here in England. They live football: football is living, and living is football.

I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.

The charm about baseball is everyone has played it in some form. Everyone relates to it.

I love England and I love cricket.

I am fully aware that cricket is like a second religion in Pakistan.

As a youngster, I really enjoyed watching cricket.

The sad fact is that it looks more and more as if our national sport is not playing at all—but watching.

I come from a country that lives and breathes rugby, and I didn't think there would be anywhere else in the world that could be the same. But New Zealand takes it to another dimension. It's extraordinary how much passion Kiwis have for the game.

America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country.

I think Bollywood and cricket go hand in hand. Glamour attracts glamour. Cricket has become a very glamorous game now.

This game is something Australians really look forward to.