Eoin Morgan Quotes

Oh man... growing up, I played everything. I played football, basketball, baseball.

Prior to high school, I played a lot of neighborhood football.

I started off playing sports when I was five years old. I played three or four sports all throughout the year.

I played basketball and soccer but they are very different games, obviously. However, playing any kind of sport always helps you develop physically.

I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.

I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

When you get off five or six months, and you're not competing as an athlete, you want to get back out on the field.

As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both.

Growing up in Quebec, we were always playing sports. Your first athletic competition was against the kids living on your block.

I want to create as many opportunities as possible for people inclined towards sports.

Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player.

I played three years as a junior.

I started playing ball when I was 4 years old.

I've always been athletic. Growing up in Puerto Rico, and being in the countryside, I was always running around. I also played volleyball, basketball, and I ran track. I was always very conscious of my body.

I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

I think most of my lessons come from sports. That's why I always emphasise to young kids to get involved in sports because it's where you learn about discipline. It's where you learn to keep going, where if you think you can't make it, you can.

Equipment's the biggest change. And the guys have been getting bigger, stronger, more athletic - so the game has become more of a track meet instead of a tennis match, in a sense.

Sport is an essential element of education.

The only exercise I get is playing sports because I hate the gym. I try to learn to love it.

I pulled a hamstring during the New York City Marathon. An hour into the race, I jumped off the couch.

I played [baseball] in college, so it wasn't that much a stretch. But I would say the main thing for guys who hadn't played before it's just one word - swagger. If you have swagger on the field, and look like you know how to play, that's 90% of it.

Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.