Sport Participation Quotes

Toyota is doing a neat job coming in to the sport - no one ever thought that there would be a day when Toyota would participate in an American-made, American-born sport like Nascar but they're doing a fantastic job.

I recognized from a young age that I wasn't a football player; I played football.

Sports are not for everyone.

I would urge youngsters to pick up a sport while pursuing your studies as it will keep you fit and you could make your country proud in the field of sports.

Not every child is cut out for an individual sport.

When brands advertise with sports players, it inspires people to be part of and play sport.

Everyone should know a sport.

The majority of people who get in the sport of gymnastics do not go to the Olympics or get a Division 1 scholarship, but it doesn't mean that they can't get something positive from the sport.

I want to be a great role model to let the kids, especially black kids, that it's possible to make it in this sport. I think we, as a black community, quit playing the game because we think it's a white man's sport. Or we think that since other black people don't play it, so why should I play it.

And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

I spend a little time every day to play sports.

I try to make myself walk around a bit, but I probably think about it more than I actually do it. Years ago, I did think about joining a gym.

I like lots of different sport, and I was always the type of lad that plays a lot of sport as well. I've played basketball; I'm not bad at tennis.

Where I grew up, hockey was the sport that 90 per cent of black kids at school played.

We have to harness the Olympic experience and this inspiration young people have to get into sport.

If one little girl who looks like me picks up a winter sport because she sees me, that's all anybody could ever ask for.

We need to get more women into sport, whether that's young girls in karting or off the track. The more we get into sport, the more you are going to get rising to the top of the sport.

I believed that we had to answer the question: Why are we doing this? And it wasn’t until we started to articulate, internally as an organisation, that it was about using the Games to inspire young people to participate in sports that we each understood what we had to do.

Going to a gym or playing a sport should not be mechanical. There should be an emotional attachment to it.

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.

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

If I wasn't active and involved in different sports and just moving around, I wouldn't have even known that I had the potential to become an Olympian.

A lot of kids don't get the chance to play sport.

When I first started snowboarding, there weren't a lot of girl riders on the hill.

I want to stay involved in athletics; I want to encourage kids to take part and try to grow the sport.