Robert Kennedy Quotes

We're all about trying to teach the kids life through basketball.

I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity - all the things you want. It's a pretty good metaphor for life.

You learn by playing a great team, and I'm talking about character things, not hockey technique.

Kids in sports - it makes such an impact in life with the lessons that you learn.

Golf is one of the greatest games in the world, not just on the course but what it can teach you off the course, the morals, stuff like that.

It's not always about getting better on the basketball court. This game teaches you how to become a better person as well. It pushes you into the team concept.

The greatest thing about sports, to me, is just the crossover into everyday life.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

If I wasn't doing this, I'd be working in a chippy. Cricket can change your life. It can teach you a lot about discipline and life in general.

We learn a lot of life lessons in how we play this great game, and I've been fortunate enough to be involved in it at every level.

Football has taught me so much.

I try and focus on the youth coming up, and I think tennis is a great sport regardless of how far you make it: just, obviously, a lot of good life lessons.

Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.

I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.

I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

Regardless of who you are, what sport you chose, or how much success you achieved, playing the game is all about getting you ready for life.

The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.

We're trying to give a young man life lessons - sacrifice, commitment, teamwork, self-confidence, self-esteem. That's what this sport does for kids.

My dream was to become a footballer. I started loving football so much that I followed my dad wherever he went and spent all my time playing football with friends out in the fields. But my parents also taught me the important values and principles in life of respect and to raise me in that way.

I know what sport has given to me in my life, what opportunities I've had and the lessons I've learned about myself and about life.

A lot of the lessons that are taught in football will promote success in anything you get into after football; for me, it just happens to be music. Being disciplined. Good character. Trying to do the right thing, and working hard.