Professional Sport Quotes

I thought I would just become a pro at a golf course.

I'm a racing driver and I need to race, that's what I do.

I don't say MMA fans are racist at all. What I said is that fans are opinionated, especially because we're the only professional sport to give them that access.

Boxing has been very, very good to me.

When I first started playing cricket for England, there was hardly any coverage.

I'm a professional footballer, and I get paid for doing my job.

Boxing is a business.

It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.

I've always found the secret is to stay fit and treat sport as a profession. I chose sport as a passion.

You have to be extremely fit. It is a professional sport. We have five shows a week. In 2014, I had 220 matches; in 2015, I was on the way to a similar amount before I got hurt. It is a full-time lifestyle. It is very demanding.

Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball.

I have had the experience of playing in Sharjah, and it worked well for me.

I just want to do the best I can, which means playing for the England full side one day and carry on playing well for Everton.

I didn't associate playing tennis with making a living until I was maybe 18 or 19.

I get to put on a helmet, go out in front of 70,000 people and play a kids game. And they pay me to do it.

I could go back to Argentina to live, but not to play.

There's a great thing about amateur sport: it is purer. And the athletes are not open to so much pressure with amateur sport.

To stay at the elite end of professional sport you need to show an awful lot of dedication.

The time I've spent in professional Premiership club rugby has been invaluable.

From a public perspective, the Grand National is the biggest race of all, and not to have won it yet is definitely a failure. But there's been a lot of jockeys every bit as good and better than me that haven't won it - John Francome, Peter Scudamore, Jonjo O'Neill, Charlie Swan, to name a few.

I'm a footballer; I want a football club.

My dad played rugby, so I used to watch a lot of rugby union and rugby league.

My family are big philanthropists, but not at putting big money into sport. Today sport is professional. It has to support itself or it won't exist. It cannot depend on a few wealthy people making donations.

The one thing about professional sport is it's all about results, and at the end of the day, if someone is employing you and you're not scoring runs or you're not taking wickets, they ain't going to carry on doing it, and there's no any other way of saying that; that's unfortunately the ruthless business of professional sport.

I've lost count of the times I've been asked what I do for a living. When I say rugby people say: 'Yes, but what's your other job?'