Sport Significance Quotes

Figo is as important to England as Beckham is.

What would we be without the fans? They're more important than me, because they make our sport great; they make things happen. We put on the show, but if people don't react to it, we are nothing. So, the fans, basically we should roll out the red carpet for them.

It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.

The French nation is more important than football.

Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically.

I know it's just sport; it's just tennis.

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

I think, when you reach the top level, it is less about the money itself; it is important only because the level of earning shows the importance of the player or the manager. I don't think people want to have the money just to spend it. It is a reflection of your importance in football.

People think sport is life and death - it's not.

What I'm really trying to do is make karting important like it is. I mean, karting is our sport, this should be really important.

To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim.

Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.

Without basketball, I wouldn't be me. I don't know where I would be at.

If it wasn't for us fighters, who have carried the sport on our backs since the very beginning... without fighters there is no fight, there's no event, and no show.

As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place.

My sport will always be important to me.

Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport.