John Hume Quotes

Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times.

Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.

I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.

I think every school in the world should have a sports program.

I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.

I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport.

I hated sports at school. Almost everyone did.

It is not that sport, over-indulged in, coarsens the mind; it is that it dulls it.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.

I play a lot of sports. I'm not real good at any of them. I'm above adequate.

Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.

They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

I played football. I wrestled. Those were team sports and I played for the school. When I was younger, I played kick the can and stuff like that. I loved that.

I myself am frustrated in just where sports are at. It's a hard thing when you're out there working every day, and you know that someone else is cheating and they may not necessarily get caught.

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

I've done sport for a long time.

I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

My belief is that sports in school is not an extracurricular activity.

I was absolutely a non-starter at games. My report for rugby said, 'Nigel's chief contribution is his presence on the field.' I used to pray for rain and sometimes it did rain - and we played anyway.

For me, sports is a big part of my life. It helped me through high school. It helped me get better grades, because if you don't have good grades, you can't play sports.

As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.