Sports Priority Quotes

I moved cities when I was 17, and I moved countries when I was 20. Every time, I put football at the forefront and, if you do that, you don't have such a hard time settling in.

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

College, for me, was more about wrestling than actually going to classes.

I've decided to make my main priority for the next two years not playing the violin, but training for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

I've got a golf scholarship for school, so they understand if I'm away. A couple of years ago they called to see why I wasn't at school, and now they're like, 'oh, she's at golf.' Sometimes I'm in class and sometimes the teachers don't realize I'm there. She goes, 'oh, Lydia's absent.' And I'm like 'no, actually, I'm here.'

I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday... unless there's a game on.

Obviously, international cricket is the main cricket you want to play, especially Test cricket.

I played all four years [at St. Mary's College] with - at a certain point, basketball became the thing I was doing most, but it was really in my periphery.

I started to study psychology but had to stop when I got into the first team.

If it's attention you want, don't get involved with a man during play-off season.

I never really had a job, because I've been cycling from such a young age: there was never really a time to have a job. My mum went into Starbucks once and asked if they had a job for me, and they offered me one - but I never took it up because I couldn't fit the job in with school and cycling.

Every game in the NFL is important.

My hockey comes first compared to everything else.

Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.

I know how important it is that test cricket is my main focus.

I'm a sports fanatic. It's hard for me to commit to the weekly, episodic nature of television, so for me, anytime that I can put a game on, that's what I do.

I love football. My weekends are booked. Saturday college games and Sunday NFL and 'Monday Night Football.' Booked! Football is first, then basketball and then everything else.

I always say it must not be an obsession to win the Champions League. It's a very important title and beautiful to do it. But you must not try to win the Champions League and lose focus on the Premier League.

Football comes first, but I want to be an actor eventually.

By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.

I can't play for the national team if I'm not playing for my club.

Basketball has always and will always come first to me but it's also given me the chance to do really fun things and work with really fun people and its something I'm lucky to have.

I'm a basketball player first and foremost. So I want to put basketball above everything else.

I'm not very good with the numbers and details and the language of contracts. I just want to play football.