Athletic Passion Quotes

When you're wrestling, it's such an amazing sport. I love it. I loved that I came from that background.

I love sports, and I'm a hugely competitive person.

I love competing, and I love throwing the football.

My dad put up a basket on my street, and I was practicing every day. It was just nuts. But I miss it. Whenever I see a ball, I get itchy!

When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.

I love hitting the ball, controlling the ball. And yeah, even the roar of the crowd. I enjoy the roar of the crowd probably less than some players and more than some. But I'm not out here to be a celebrity.

I don't cheer for anyone because my job is obviously more important, but the reason why I got into sports is because of my father. He's a giant sports fan and we are from New England, so he cheered for the Celtics and the Red Sox.

I'm addicted to football. When I get outside, I just want to stay on the training pitch.

Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.

I don't play basketball for the money; it was the last thing I thought of when I was a little kid.

It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.

Wherever I go and whoever I go play for, I'm a football player. I enjoy playing football, I enjoy the game, I enjoy being a teammate.

I couldn't believe just how emotional I was about the London Olympics. Before the Games even started, I was reading a newspaper sitting in a hair salon and my mom looked over at me and I was just sobbing, because something about seeing the rings and hearing the athletes' excitement and just kind of knowing exactly what they were going through.

My dad introduced me to the game, gave me a stick. Since then I've had a passion for it.

The game's my life and I'm so passionate about it. When you see your life so intertwined with football it can make things very difficult. You might go and watch a film and start imagining footballers running across the screen, you know?

I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track, and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am today and even how I think today.

I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.

One of my first races came over 10km in 2002. I won that race and it felt great. I would say that is when I first fell in love with running.

I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I'm not enjoying it, I will leave football.

I'm looking forward to getting back on the field, it's what I love to do.

My parents, they don't say to me you have to play hockey. They just see me and how I love what's going on on the ice, how I love this atmosphere.

As of right now, I have no desire. I've watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I'd have the feeling I'd like to get back, but I didn't have that feeling. I don't really miss the game.

I have just fallen back in love with rugby league again.

I'm a jock and I'm an athlete, and that's what I love to do.