sports challenges Quotes

When there were just eight teams in each of the big leagues, I was always told, 'It's hard to come up, but it's just hard to stay in the big leagues.' That's because there's always somebody. The Cardinals had so many minor league clubs and had so many good ballplayers.

Coping with injuries is always difficult for athletes because all we want to do is, basically, to have our best performances unhindered.

That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.

People think because I was at City that I've only won leagues and cups, but I was there when we were struggling.

Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

At the end of the day, it's an unforgiving sport.

That's what sport can do to you: it gives you a lot of heartache and pain, and sometimes the ultimate rewards.

The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold.

The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.

As a defender, you can be many shapes and sizes. You can be short and fast. Or you can be tall and jump high. It doesn't matter. The only necessity is that you are confident when you take the pitch - because every week there is a new challenge.

People think I'm soft and bailed out on basketball. But it was five knee surgeries.

I think there would be situations that will occur on the field that would be tough for a person who is homosexual, because I know there will be people definitely taking shots at him.

I think one of the concerns, anytime you're in the human business, like sports, it's a very high - risk endeavor. You do have to get players every year. You have to deal with calendar. You have to deal with all kinds of things in our sport, like every sport does.

Most of the players can get injured, small ones and big ones. But when you get the small ones, you have to fight against them and play, play, play.

That's part of the NBA. It's a lot of ups and downs.

I wouldn't want to play LSU right now even if I were the Indianapolis Colts.

Artificial pitches are just one more condition for us, like sun, wind or snow; we should be able to deal with such conditions.

People forget that track and field is one of the hardest sports because we compete against all the world. There are many sports when you are up against only 15 or 20 countries.

When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement.

Coming from a country that loves tennis, actually, there are a lot of people who play. We definitely face a lot of challenges when it comes to producing tennis players.

When I was with PSV Eindhoven in Holland, some people still thought Asian players weren't good enough to play in Europe. It's always good to rise to the challenge and prove them wrong. When I first came to United, I had to prove my ability again.

Going in, you want to play a perfect season and play throughout the whole entire season, but injuries are a part of basketball.

I played semi-pro at Chalfont St. Peter but it's so hard to become a pro footballer - I think there's even more competition than acting.

It was very hard for me as a kid to get through as a footballer in Uruguay.

I didn't have any natural instincts toward heading. It cost me lots of opportunities to score.