Sporting Tradition Quotes

When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.

I started with golf because I saw my brothers play, I was always watching them. It was my life. Growing up, we always played competitions like chipping, hitting.

I think it's a thing in France, and I think you see it a little bit in Spain with Atletico: the countries and the cities just absolutely love their football. It's not because they're just marketing geniuses; it's because they've made it simple.

Cycling was the sport of our family - we did it all the time, five days a week.

When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

Ever since I started playing football, I've always taken the number 10 shirt.

Football is the last sacred ritual of our time.

I was fortunate to play with so many wonderful footballers and under the greatest manager of all time, but I do believe that a club's ethos, the principles of how it plays, should outlive even the biggest individuals in its history.

There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.

You know there is something a little bit special about an Ashes.

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.

I think every Indian knows how to play cricket.

I do enjoy the Scottish way of playing football.

Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.

Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required all the manly qualities of activity, endurance, pluck, and skill peculiar to cricket, and was immeasurably superior to that game in exciting features.

I've learnt - and this pleases me - that my dad's cricketing life and my own will always be intertwined, even though I will finish far behind the number of appearances he made for Yorkshire and also his length of service at Headingley.

It's a song that we sing after we win a Test match. We sing it after every one-day series win. It's been passed down through the generations. It's the culture of the Australian team.

I know my dad would have loved me to have played rugby. He was a No. 8. I started off playing centre and ended up playing at the back of the scrum, No. 8 as well, just picking it up and running with it.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.

Our sport probably has the best history and tradition of being engaged in international competition.