Global Sport Quotes

Football is not just in Europe, there is football all over the world so I am always open to the idea of managing anywhere in the world.

Football's the biggest game in the world. America's the greatest sporting nation there is. To play some part in putting those two things together: why wouldn't I be excited about that?

I think football in general globally has a unique way of uniting people instead of dividing people.

Wrestling is a worldwide sport. It's totally international.

If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it's the biggest sport in the world.

Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States there's a reason why it is the world's No. 1 sport. The rest of the planet can't be wrong.

Football is the best, is the biggest sport in the world.

Wrestling is such a competitive sport worldwide.

To reach the heights of a truly global sport, in a sport as difficult as this, is a monumental achievement.

American leagues - baseball, ice hockey, American football and basketball - you are the best. But in a global sport like soccer, you're not.

The NBA is becoming a global game.

Some people don't understand that football is universal. It doesn't have a race or nationality. It's one group of people.

I have a passion for playing tennis and enjoy the workload and struggles of performing in this amazing global sport.

I think the international players, in general, show how basketball is global now. There are players from all the countries.

We are a global sport. I mean, golf is obviously played all around the world. But when you have your National Championship, of course, everybody in America is rooting for an American.

Baseball is played by all countries now, and softball, too.

You have to see that cricket is developing as a sport because what's very important is you want cricket to be a global sport when it comes to participation.

You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.

Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.

Wrestling has its own culture. Every culture - Japan, Samoan, Indian, Korean - has wrestling, and wrestling is a worldwide mix.

A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.

I think it is high time that Europe starts to understand that we do not rule the world anymore, and that some former European imperial powers can no longer impress their will on to others in far away places, and we must accept that football has moved away from being a European and South American sport: it has become the World Sport that billions of fans are excitedly following every week, everywhere in the world.

Football is global; it does not end at Barca.

There are a lot of sports that New Zealand does very well but MMA is a truly global sport and it's practiced in the farthest reaches of this earth.

The only thing I want is tennis to be the biggest sport on the planet.