Sports Schedule Quotes

Christmas Day is a big day for NBA basketball.

I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.

Sometimes in the NBA, the schedule gets to be a lot with all these events, busses, planes and games. But once that's gone, you miss it so bad.

The American professional schedule gives players a six-month off-season, so many of us have become pickup regulars while training without an organized team.

The calendar and the clock are all set by football season and the offseason.

A break in the middle of the season is good for everybody.

In December, every league has a break, but in England, it is not like this.

Personally, I always loved the 1 p.m. Sunday games.

After a Saturday game, we're in on a Sunday to cool down and make sure we're fully back at it again. But it doesn't really affect things too much. It's basically like you've had a game on the Saturday, and then you're in the cup on a Tuesday.

It's hard for the older boys to play twice a week, so it's important for everyone in the squad to play their part.

The reason why I have lost weight is that I looked at the international schedule and thought that I wanted to play for another two years. It is a very hectic schedule and if I want to get through that then I have to be in the best shape that I can.

At the end of the day, it is a very long year. The tennis season is pretty much ten months of the year.

Well, you have your regular classes, like three hours every other day, three times a week. You get twice a week to have an ice practice. Once a week you have weight lifting. It was great.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

My crazy training-and-competition schedule leaves very little time to focus on my hair.

Usually I'm nowhere near the playoffs. My last game of the year is usually at the end of the regular season in April.

Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost.

It's difficult to go out when there is a match every third day. There isn't that much time - it's either preparation or recovery - and I would rather spend my time with friends at home.

We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury.

As it is, I have a busy schedule, and I don't think I have the time for Test matches.

I love the English league. I think it's the best in the world, but I have a problem with Christmas and New Year's Day because you have to play.

Playing on a Thursday and then a Sunday is not a problem.

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.

Sometimes you're playing two or three times a week.

The most I ever played was 12 or 13 tournaments. Now they're talking about almost 20, and it's all year round, playing through the summer as well.