Sport Appreciation Quotes

When you're wrestling, it's such an amazing sport. I love it. I loved that I came from that background.

My thing is that if you love the sport, appreciate the sport as a whole. If you love the sport, you love the slick boxer; you love the guy who can box and punch. You love the brawler.

People want to see blood. They don't care anymore if you can box for 12 rounds. They don't appreciate the art of the good boxer.

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it.

It was a fun ride. I've enjoyed my time on the ice and I've enjoyed more and more people getting interested in the game of hockey.

My dad was a prize fighter in his youth. My boxing skills are very limited. I did train for most of my youth but couldn't really see the point of getting punched in the head. I'm a lover, not a fighter, but I do enjoy the sport in its purest form. As a child, my heroes were my dad and Muhammad Ali.

Football is a very beautiful sport and everybody should try to enjoy it.

I watch golf, just looking at the pros, and I'm in awe of how they play. Not one particular player - maybe all the players.

I've kind of grew to enjoy fighting legends that I got into the sport watching and admiring.

We all want to thank Emmitt for allowing us to enjoy every yard.

My original perception of wrestling was not a very positive one. I didn't understand it at all, and I thought it was kind of silly and ridiculous. But as I got to know it, it was sort of like how people used to talk about musicals, to me, when I was younger.

When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and it worked, since the first time I played badminton was like the first time I tasted sushi or heard the Beatles or read Wordsworth. This was a sport? This counted for gym requirements?

I think it's great that so many people are enjoying climbing. I've always loved climbing; I don't see why other people wouldn't enjoy it just as much. As long as everyone does their best to respect the areas in which they're climbing, I don't see how the growth of the sport could be a bad thing.

I'm just blessed that fighting was an option. Now I'm doing it and I love it. I thank God every day that I'm in the sport.

In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.

I've just got to continue doing my job and more and more people will see the beauty in the sport that I see.