Passion for Sport Quotes

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

In our family, we don't know why there are so many of us in wrestling. We think about it at the dinner table when we have big family reunions, and it just comes from a passion and love we have for the industry.

Yes, I love playing football, so it doesn't matter where I play.

I'm very proud to be a professional tennis player. I'm really happy to be doing something that I love. With this comes responsibility, and I am honored when I am told that I have inspired someone to play tennis.

When you do something as long as I have, you obviously love the sport - although not everything about the sport.

I still love playing the game, and it's amazing we can do this as a so-called 'job,' and it's amazing we can come to the rink every day and play the game we love.

I don't think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that's where the problem is.

My daughters won't let me retire. Many times I joke at home that this will be my last year, and they tell me that I won't be able to live without it. I need to play it, watch it on TV or know what's going on.

Of course money takes that worry out of your life and enables you to provide for your family - but if it was playing professional football for free or choose another living, then I would choose football every time.

It's amazing to be able to play the sport that I grew up loving so much and that I have a strong passion for. I'm just having a ball. There's a lot of pressure that comes with being in the spotlight and being a superstar and a role model, but I'm enjoying it.

I don't play football just for money or things like that.

I think so highly of people who love their sport and make a really strong commitment to it.

I didn't go into football to earn money. It was because I liked playing football.

I've never needed to play for money. I play because I love football.

The one thing I always said to myself was that when baseball started to feel more like a job, it would be time to move forward.

Every second I'm on the pitch for Wales is an honour, and I love playing.

At the end of the day, the priority is to perform, and the priority is to know that even if women aren't in the spotlight or in the limelight the whole time, we're still bringing in results, and we're still doing what we do best. For me, I'm doing what I love: I love training, I love kayaking and racing, and I'm getting results. Life is good.

Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.

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.

If I were to write my epitaph... Epitaph? Hey, shut-up Albert. I'd want to be remembered as someone who loved his sport and tried his best.

Women's sport is genuine, it's pure and it's raw... we don't do it 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 just want to enjoy football and show the best I can do.

I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.

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.