Sports Background Quotes

I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.

When I became a presenter, Bob Wilson was the only other ex-sportsman doing it.

My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

I'm a very competitive person - I grew up playing sports - so the challenge of always bettering myself is something that I like.

I was a gymnast for 13 years, so I was heavy into sports.

I was always hugely into sport before I started boxing. I played rugby, football, cricket, athletics, swimming.

I feel like I've had 20 years of experience at a very high level, if you throw in college, playing overseas, I've played in hundreds and hundreds of games.

I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.

I've been playing semi-professional football since I was 14, really.

I grew up an athlete, growing up in Pittsburgh. I played basketball. I played football. I played a little bit of baseball in my earlier years.

I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.

Biggest influence is my parents. It's funny but my mom was the first one that allowed me to play tackle football. My dad was not ready to let me play yet. She definitely was the one who allowed me to do it. Obviously my dad taught me to throw and be a quarterback.

I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually.

I grew up in Hockley, Birmingham. It was an environment I'll never forget in terms of playing football on local pitches, kicking a ball around in the front garden and all over the house. It was a positive place to live, and somewhere, that gave me the right grounding for where I am today.

As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one.

When I came to the high-performance arena, I was kind of a one-off in a lot of ways. I was as much an iron man as much as I was a cricketer. Having surfed, fished, hunted, that was just a natural thing.

My father was just an amateur; my mother is not even an athlete herself.

I didn't grow up playing football. I wanted to be a basketball player.

I grew up playing every sport.

The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.

I didn't know much about golf growing up.

I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.

I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.

If it wasn't for my dad, I would never have known about pentathlon, because it's not popular at all in Australia.

I am an arena creature - by birth, I think. Most of my life has been spent as a rink rat.