Sports Decision Quotes

That's your dream, to play professional baseball. When you get the opportunity like that, getting drafted - especially by Oakland, a California team, pretty close to home - it was tempting. At the time, I just didn't think I was ready or mature enough mentally or physically to start pro ball.

All three of us boys, we grew up playing soccer. It was all of our first love. One of my coaches actually wanted me to try out for the U.S. national team, but I decided to quit to pursue football.

My mom wanted me to play baseball. She didn't want me to play basketball.

I played in Qatar only because I had a great offer and I am not ashamed to accept. We played in empty stadiums! I realised what a mistake I made and decided to leave the club immediately.

You do your best but I think I'm going to try and get back in as a batsman first, spinner second.

The opportunity to play in the Big Ten was one that I could not pass up.

I saw a chance to make the 1988 Olympic boxing team and forgot all about football.

I was all for basketball, and I made the decision to play tennis.

I was a bowler - left arm, smash it down as fast as I could. I did a lot of work with Damian D'Oliveira, and I probably had a chance of doing that for a living. But when I reached 16, I knew I couldn't carry on playing both football and cricket, and I was already in the Shrewsbury squad.

I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted.

I thought it was pathetic: The league just decided that Grant Hill would go right to the top.

I had to decide if I was going to try a junior college or walk on somewhere. I even thought about changing sports. But I eventually decided that football was my passion.

I was wrestling all the way to high school, but it kind of came in the same season as basketball, so I had to pick and choose one, and I decided to go all the way with basketball.

Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.

The University of Memphis didn't have the flashy profile or the national exposure. It's a great university. I love the offense. I love the atmosphere, the big city. They have everything I want. The only knock against them is they are not a great team.

Rivaldo was fundamental for me accepting the challenge in Bunyodkor.

There's no way I can go play for the Yankees.

For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.

It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.

There was an option to sign for Barcelona and other teams before I moved to Madrid.

I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50.

There's definitely football in the blood, but my body made my decision for me that I was going to be an Olympic athlete instead.

The ugliest player I ever signed was Kenny Burns.

I would say moving to Iowa turned out to be the best thing for my basketball career.

To play at the Mecca of basketball and the Garden every night, it's probably the greatest decision I've ever made to go to New York.