Sports Awareness Quotes

You know, I think more people should watch women's basketball. It'd do so much for the game.

I am there to play tennis and represent the U.S., but I'm also aware that not everyone's going to be able to think that way.

SportsCenter? You watch it and I didn't miss one thing. Chris Berman, they give you the whole rundown. I'm like wow. And I go in there and I walk in the next day, I know everything. They'll be like, "Oh did you see that?" I'd be like "Yeah I did," but it didn't take five hours.

I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.

I'm not a real sports guy, but I check ESPN.com just so I know what people are talking about.

It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football.

I'm not that clued up on the American sports yet, really.

If it's not televised, there's no way Americans will know about competitive badminton. All they know is the back-yard thing.

I think American fans, they know more college guys than guys overseas.

For the average person walking down the street, they don't even know a women's soccer league exists in this country.

People outside of tennis, all the famous actors and everyone, knows Wimbledon.

People don't know how fantastic women's ice hockey is. People don't know how fantastic hockey is in general.

I wasn't aware of women's cricket until I was 10. We grew up following the men's game.

In Argentina, everyone knows Manchester United, but the only ones who've heard of Fiorentina are people who follow me.

There are soccer athletes that are known the world over except in the U.S. Thierry Henry, for example.

I think sometimes players must have a wake-up call before they realise they are back in African football.

Everybody knows everything about all the teams now.

It's an L.A. thing. This is not a town where all the dudes love sports necessarily. I don't need you to love sports 24-7, but I kind of need you to know a little bit and it's a weird place for that.

In a world overloaded with information and content, there is simply no excuse for fans to be ill-informed about women's football.

If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.

I know there are millions of football fans who love this game, but can see the world outside it.

Not too many people know what a pentathlon is or what's involved, which is why visiting schools is good because they can learn about it at a young age and hopefully try it out.

People were not even knowing that women's cricket existed. And from that phase to today where people would want to follow women's cricket, I think we have come a long way.

As a young kid in the beginning, I myself did not know that there was women's cricket in India or that there is an Indian women's cricket team.

I don't think people realise the quality of player in the lower leagues.