Dedication to the Sport Quotes

For me, my passion is just to play the game, it doesn't matter if no one comes to the stadium to watch.

I always thought just because I love football, it doesn't necessarily mean I'm desperate to manage.

People who don't like football don't appreciate my game, but I like it.

During the offseason, I didn't take any time off. And I played this game for over 20 years. So right after the season, I would go right back into my regimen.

Football is Freedom, a whole universe.

I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race and no World Series. And for all any of us know there might soon be no nation at all. It is good to care - in any dimension. More Americans put their caring into baseball than into anything else I can think of - and most put at least a little of it there. Baseball can be trusted, as great art can, and bad art can't.

Football is my life, and I cannot imagine myself doing anything other than playing this game.

You hear players in the past say that it's just a job for them, but for me, it is nothing like that. I literally wish I could play football every day.

There are those kind of fighters that just go in to get paid. That's not me, man. I have never been that guy.

I saw greatness in John and he lived up to it. I also saw a tremendous competitor who loved to win. John is a standard bearer, someone that players, coaches, fans and the Raider Nation can all look up to. One of his great virtues, the fire that burned brightest in him, was his love and passion for football, which was seldom ever equaled.

If you're not an ambitious footballer, you're in the wrong game, really.

Wrestling just comes naturally to me. It wasn't like there was this moment where I said, 'This is what I'm going to do.' It's just what I did. It was my life.

Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing.

Hockey is my life and money is money. If you think about money, you stop playing hockey.

Maybe sometimes I don't look like that I'm really enjoying being on the court and playing tennis, but inside, I'm really enjoying it.

The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game. There is absolutely no substitute for this.

More teams are trying to go full-time, so it gives everyone the best chance possible to be the best footballer they can be, which makes it more appealing to fans, because we're better as we focus solely on the game as our job.

The ultimate goal of any athlete in any sport is to become a true world champion.

As soon as football stops being fun, that's usually when guys stop playing.

I have always wanted to play for Nigeria and I enjoy each minute we gather and when we play.

I think the love of the game and the love of scoring goals helps you get yourself in the right area at the right time.

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I've enjoyed doing the games. I don't ever go to the park where I don't have a good day. I don't like losing. But I don't think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don't think once.

Of course we all dream about doing big, playing for big clubs, but I wanted to play football because of the love for the game.