Sports Limitation Quotes

I played football for Leeds United under-18s, but at 17 my eyes started to go and I had to wear glasses. The football had to go - there were no contact lenses in 1957.

You know, I love wearing heels. I wish I could wear them all the time, but, you know, my sport doesn't really permit it.

There was definitely no time in grades 11 and 12 to do any other sports. That was one downside; I really enjoyed playing other sports.

When you lose your hands, you can't play baseball.

I don't feel I could've played major league baseball.

I feel like there was a belief that I couldn't play more than 10 minutes in the league because of asthma or because of anything.

It was really a focus on how to in some ways keep moving in this direction towards something that allowed me to express myself in a way that sports didn't.

As a lad I missed five months of sporting activity to OSD. It used to wake me up at night with pain in my knees.

I had good skills, but my lack of size and speed kept me a little behind the best kids in the other sports. Golf offered a more level field. I would have rather played other sports, but golf picked me.

I must be rubbish as I can only play one sport.

I can't palm a basketball.

I had been pulling my groins in college a lot and missed my whole freshman year of college because of groin pulls. It was chronic, and I couldn't figure it out. I went to the doctor, and he told me I had hip dysplasia. So I knew my hockey days were sorta limited at that point.

I realized early on in my life that I couldn't hit the curve or throw the 50-yard post pattern, so talking about it would be my way in.

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.

Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.

Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.

I was never a gym person before 'Game Of Thrones.' The idea of it was a bore to me - and it kind of still is - but I had a problem with my knee, so I can't play sport as much as I'd like to.

I was an in-between size. I wasn't tall enough to be a real forward, and I probably didn't handle the ball well enough to be a point guard.

I had zero opportunity to play football over the years.

I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.

Because we are a small country, unlike England, Italy, or Brazil, we don't have as many good players.

I can't do any competitive sport myself!

I love exercise, but I didn't join a single sports club as a student - I have no hand-eye coordination. Things like yoga are amazing, but anything with a ball just isn't for me.

I went to a Christian School, and when I reached a certain age, I wasn't allowed to wear pants to school anymore. There was a big conference about it with my parents about how unladylike it was for me to wear pants ,this was a school where the principal and once of the coaches stood at the front door with a wooden ruler to make sure girls' skirts were an inch below their knee. So, from that day forward, I had to wear skirts, which meant that I couldn't play on the playground like I used to. I really feel like I could've been the next Serena Williams if not for that.

When I came out of school, being a 'tweener' and not having a natural position was my biggest knock.