Sports Dedication Quotes

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

From the start, all I did was play football. I briefly played badminton and won a tournament when I was 12, but really, it was always football.

When I was 13, tennis became more of my life. It's when I gave up skiing, I gave up winter sports. I still played varsity basketball my freshman year of high school - basketball was the last sport I gave up for my tennis.

Everybody is going to be excited to play in a Super Bowl. When you still enjoy the preparation and the work part of it, I think you ought to be still doing that. I think as soon as I stop enjoying it, if I can't produce, if I can't help a team, that's when I will stop playing.

Playing with my brother, that's the only thing I didn't get to do in football.

I've been playing squash almost daily for 38 years.

I am a professional footballer and as long as I'm able to make a contribution, I'll be doing all I can to stay at the top.

I hated to miss games... at the height of my career, I missed a lot of games due to... just a hamstring pull. And I hated sitting out. I just hated it. You play for your team, but you also play for the people who attend the games.

For eight years, all I cared about was track.

As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

I like to win; I chose Juve to win. I will do my best for the fans, the club, and my team-mates.

I love football. The games are a pure rush. By the time I'm done playing, I want to be among the best tight ends ever to play the game.

Like so many of the players, I started at La Masia at the age of 11. I can't ever imagine not playing for Barcelona, let alone not playing soccer for a career. I don't ever want to play anywhere else.

I want to play years in this league.

All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.

Knicks fans are great. New York fans in general are awesome. They're passionate as hell, they know the sports, they know the game.

I always wanted to be a pro athlete. When I was younger I wanted to be the first person to be a pro at three different sports, but then realized how impossible that is. At 15 I stopped playing other sports and focused on tennis.

If you go out once a week, they can blast on you that you're always out all the time, but I always put work first, and people sometimes don't see the side of going into the weight room, behind-the-scenes-type stuff with football.

I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games.

You need a certain type of balance in life and I know where to put football in its proper place. But my love for the game, I have it just like everybody else. If you don't, you're going to get yourself hurt out there.

I always said if I didn't focus on basketball, then it would have been football. I was pretty good and was asked to go to England trials.

I never want to quit playing ball. They'll have to cut this uniform off of me to get me out of it.

I knew there was no money in track and field unless you were unbelievable. So I stopped it when I was 13. I just really wanted to focus on soccer and with soccer training and high school, it would have been too much if I did track and field as well.

I am going to fight on the pitch for Newcastle and if it comes to the stage where someone says can you fight for England then I will fight for England. But I am not going to go on about it. It is just not worth it.