Sports Clubs Quotes

Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

I started playing for a team called Cosmos in the Tandridge League before I went for a two-week trial with Palace. They must have liked what they saw.

Before the last Olympics, we had meat raffles at the local surf club to get petrol money to go to training, to help out with the bills. But I know there are a lot of athletes worse off and that all athletes, at some stage of their careers, have made sacrifices.

It's incredible to watch how our cricket clubs depend on volunteers.

All my mates are massive Leeds fans because I live in Wakefield, but my best friend in the entire world is the Middlesbrough chairman.

Among the clubs that most wanted to recruit me were Marseille and Leicester.

There aren't very many clubs. There's no place for people to develop and play.

At school, myself and some pals, all football-daft, divided up the old English First Division and wrote off to half a dozen clubs each asking for a trial.

We can't all have gleaming grass, cut to the millimetre, perfectly manicured and watered when needed and looked after by 10 groundsmen. Not everyone can be at these clubs.

When I was six, I joined an amateur club called VK Tielrode in Belgium where I lived.

Of course, the moment when the ball hits the net, that's fascinating for kids playing the game and motivates them to join a club.

The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.

In the past two or three years, the number of clubs has doubled ... we've got close to 8 000 players, about 60 to 80 clubs. It's not restricted to the metros any more, it's gone rural.