Regional Sports Quotes

I guess I'd be nervous to skate and do hockey. Growing up in Hawaii there's not a lot of ice.

When I was a kid down there it was always a dream to go to a Nebraska game but when you live in those small towns you hardly ever get up to one.

When I was a kid, I loved figure skating. But in Mexico, they kind of push you toward hockey.

I am always committed to West Indies cricket.

Basketball in Latin America is growing a lot and it's being seen with the quantity of players in the NBA.

I always say that polo, for you to pursue a career, mainly any sport, you have to be born in the right place. If you're born in Hawaii, you surf. If you're born in Austria, you probably will ski. If you're born in Argentina, you most likely ride horses and have a chance to play polo.

You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there.

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.

My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

There's not that many great swimmers from Brooklyn.

Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?

As we get farther north and east, the Yankees improve very much.