Sporting Heritage Quotes

I'm always going to be a Celtic no matter what. It's always going to be in my veins. Once you live there and play for that team and win a championship, it doesn't matter where you go.

In our family, we don't know why there are so many of us in wrestling. We think about it at the dinner table when we have big family reunions, and it just comes from a passion and love we have for the industry.

Pro wrestling has always been ingrained into American culture. It was one of the first things that was ever on television, so everybody watched it. Countless people tell me, 'I got into wrestling because my grandfather watched it.' It was always there.

I still get goose-bumps when I walk into the All England Lawn Tennis Club at the start of tournament and that will never change.

Michael Owen's wonder goal against Argentina in 1998 was one defining memory, and as a Sunderland supporter, I remember crying my eyes out after they lost that play-off final against Charlton. Much as that hurt, it made me realise how much I wanted to play the game.

As a former cricketer you want to give something back.

There is nothing like playing at Wimbledon; you can feel the footprints of the legends of the game-men and women-that have graced those courts.

The Olympics are great, but they only truly mean something when the moments that come out of them are bigger than the individual sports.

We come from a rich history of amazing sports and athletes here in Canada and there's been a long legacy before us that helped pave the way. And that's why I grew up believing I could go to the Olympics and stand on the podium one day.

I was fortunate to play with so many wonderful footballers and under the greatest manager of all time, but I do believe that a club's ethos, the principles of how it plays, should outlive even the biggest individuals in its history.

Everybody loves Wimbledon, with all the tradition and everything else.

Cowdenbeath Football Club have always been at the centre of Cowdenbeath - literally and in every aspect of community life.

My dad was a professional track racer. It's in my genes, and my first memories as a baby were in a velodrome.

It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.

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

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.

When we lose Fenway, we lose the sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit.

It has been an honour to defend the colours of a historic club like Deportivo.

She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley.

There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.

I am Neapolitan and Naples are the team from where I grew up.

I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots... I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland. That is my background and always will be.

Ever since I knew Dad did pentathlon, I wanted to do it as well. I have seen all his old photos, and he still has his Olympic riding jacket, and that makes this even more special.

In Brazil, if you have a son, the first thing you give him is a football. That's the first gift - so my dad was no different.

There is a feeling when you are in Yankee Stadium that it is a very sacred ground you are walking on and you know you had the same feelings that other great players have had in other eras that played right there on that field.