Sports Decline Quotes

Obviously, in a sport like golf, we see Tiger Woods fall off. There's not really too much damage he can take from that, although when you watch him and he sucks, and you're like, 'God, you used to be so good but you suck now,' it's disconcerting as a fan.

I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.

I worked in a gym. I was a trainer. I did all the crappy ex-football-player jobs.

The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become.

I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much.

There's a lot more future in hamburgers than in baseball.

Getting past 30 as a sportsman, the end could be just around the corner.

I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I was very young for my school year and when puberty kicked in for my classmates I got left behind.

Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.

I'm not a real smart guy. But I've got enough brains to realize that when I'm 60 years old and play a sport, that it's downhill.

I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school, it just didn't exist there.

I started acting when I was at Amherst my junior year, and my lacrosse career kind of started to flop sideways after that.

I'd love to still be able to play a bit of football, but my knees are shot to pieces.

The Jets seem to be a franchise in freefall.

I was playing good tennis up until 100.

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

When I got fired from coaching, I started coaching high school because my son played. I realized real quick that high school football is in trouble. There's no budget. A lot of kids have got to pay to play, and every year, coaches are getting out of the profession. Kids aren't playing like they used to. It bothers me.

When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?

I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.

I think the NFL is 10 years away from an implosion.

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

I probably played as much hurling as anybody up to the age of about 12, but apart from that I haven't played a lot.

When people say that American tennis is dead and things like that, you kind of take it a little personal.

My court skills may have atrophied.

Usually older players, late in the season, start to get cold.