Sporting Passion Quotes

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

From the start, all I did was play football. I briefly played badminton and won a tournament when I was 12, but really, it was always football.

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.

I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.

I chose Napoli with my heart.

Before games, people ask whether I get nervous. To be honest, I don't get nervous, I just enjoy it. I am living the dream. When I was a kid I always wanted to play for my country and now I am here, I will enjoy it.

I love football in the rain. That is what it's all about.

I played football my whole life, pretty much.

When you love the competition, the opportunity to achieve at simple but challenging games, some people are really into it, and I'm one of them.

As a working-class boy, golf was never really on my radar, and when I was growing up, Irish football was my sporting passion.

It is to create the best Games the world has ever seen by unlocking the UK's unrivalled passion for sport, by delivering the best Games for athletes to compete in, by showcasing London's unmatched cultural wealth and diversity and by creating a real and lasting legacy.

Boxing is the embodiment of who I am, but beyond that, this is a journey of the self, and my obsession to get the most from this short life.

I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.

As badly as everybody feels like I'm a sellout for one thing or another, I guess, ultimately, when it came to wrestling, I just wanted to wrestle where I want to wrestle. And something had to be bigger and more important than the money, and for me, it was the time inside that ring.

Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.

Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my - my brother and I both loved sports.

I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games.

The power which football has is enormous. Football moves the masses.

Sport was an obvious favourite of mine, and not only golf. I was, and still am, a big rugby fan.

I play football because I love the game and I put everything into it.

I realise that sometimes things go well and sometimes they don't. But it is very important for me I feel personally, even selfishly, the need to be playing football matches.

I don't dislike football. I love football.

As a test cricket lover, and as a cricket lover, I like all forms of the game.

Since my childhood, I saw my elder brothers playing cricket and that is what built my passion around it. I was enrolled in school but all my attention was on cricket.