Henry Cabot Lodge Quotes

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.

Football's an intense game. I love that. It's awesome.

Football is a game you're supposed to have fun in.

I enjoy wrestling. I enjoy the sport. I get to go against the world's best athletes.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.

I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.

Football rewards the guys that are in great condition.

I was the sports captain in school. I've done everything - from javelin to discus to basketball to judo.

You're only out there for 90 minutes, and you have to give it everything you've got. It's a game of football, at the end of the day.

I've always prided myself on being a football player.

Football is not only sunshine.

I think that most players enjoy playing football, but, like in everything, there are good moments and bad moments.

You should want to run if you're a player, shouldn't you, on offense?

I do a lot of things well, I'm very athletic, I play against guys who are also very athletic.

I'm a football player playing basketball.

I was one of those athletic African players.

We play in a physical sport.

I really enjoyed playing rugby. I loved the camaraderie with the other athletes. It was kind of like fighting. Team fighting.

I was always more of an athlete. I like to compete.

I'm just going to go play football - fly around and make some plays. That's all that matters.

It's in my blood to be an athlete, to be a hockey player.

I like contact sports like football. I like collisions, and I was good at it.

I miss training for football and I miss playing matches.

It is a physical game here in England, but I can cope with it.