Sporting Career Quotes

Baseball is my first love, and it's what I know, and it's what I'll do until I can't do it anymore, and I'm still hungry to do that.

I didn't expect to be dropped by England.

I don't want to be resentful to the sport. I want to be able to leave the sport on a high note.

I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I'm not enjoying it, I will leave football.

I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

Certainly, when I started bobsledding I didn't think of being in the Olympics some day.

The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.

If the javelin had hit me 10cm to the left, it would have punctured my lung, 20cm higher the throat, which would have been the worst-case scenario. Just 1cm higher and it would have hit bone, muscle and tendon and that would have been the end of my sporting career.

I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn't very entertaining for me.

I'm more than blessed to be able to play a PE sport for money.

Players are sometimes sad, sometimes happy during their sporting career.

I remember watching the 2000 Sydney Olympics, with my nose right up to the screen, knowing there and then that I wanted a sporting career.

Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.

When I was sold from Real Madrid to Inter, I would have preferred to have remained in Spain.

When you're a kid, you dream about playing cricket for a living, playing for your county and then your country.

I trained really badly during the first 10 years of my sporting career.

I was very excited when I first started to travel so much. In fact, I was amazed that people were paying me to travel to play the game I loved.

When I got the call of being drafted by the Devils, I was in shock more than anything. I didn't have a clue where New Jersey was, but it was just nice to be taken in the first round and nice to know where my future would be, which organization I was going to be a part of.

I've played at the highest level, so I'm just looking forward to enjoying the football, so anywhere there is interest, then yeah. I will consider it.

If someone plays six World Cups, they deserve to be congratulated.

There's a lot to be said for going to baseball games for a living.

The most important thing for me is that I get regular first team action.

I have won 85 caps and have had a great career with Wales and have enjoyed every minute of it.

Honestly, during the 2018 World Cup itself, I was saying T20 World Cup was going to be my last.

In all my years of cricket, I've given hundreds of interviews and done dozens of TV shows, but what you will read in my memoir are the stories and thoughts I've never shared openly.