Sports Popularity Quotes

Baseball is the biggest sport in Japan, then soccer, and basketball is... People don't really care about basketball.

Football in Europe is No. 1 - that is what everyone watches because the best players in the world compete in this area.

Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity.

Everyone wants to come to Portland to play, whether for us or against us.

Once the US Open is over in the States, mainstream America doesn't really follow tennis, unless you are a true tennis fan.

Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.

NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.

I think the NHL has done a great job of building the sport as far as getting the people's attention and letting them know what's going on in hockey - especially when the powers meet each other.

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.

Nobody worked as hard to make snooker a popular sport as I did.

We have regularly won medals at all tournaments and I think after 'Dangal,' the craze for wrestling increased among the girls.

I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.

Badminton in Beijing is huge - it's one of their top three sports.

Foreign players is what makes golf so popular now.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

There are only four U.S. tournaments that the very best players in the world play every year - Palm Springs, Miami, Cincinnati, and the U.S. Open. So how would golf or NFL or NHL fare if there were only four times a year that their very best were visible? Tennis went international, and for us to expect it to be popular media-wise is very naïve. And that translates into children and families being interested.

Football is only once a week. NASCAR is once a week. Those sports are insanely popular. Horse racing is oversaturated. Unless tracks cut back to three days a week of full fields, a lot of people will really hurt down the road. Horse racing, to survive, has to go to that. Let's face it: Churchill Downs only does well on Derby Week.

There really hasn't been a name that is in the media on a daily basis, and that's what skating in the '90s was. Everyone knew, after the Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan incident - Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan, Kristi Yamaguchi, Michelle Kwan - everyone knew these names. They were household names because they were winning; they were on TV.

If Hollywood was somewhere else, if Hollywood was in Lincoln, Nebraska, then obviously celebrities would be coming around a lot more to the Huskers games.

Man Utd have always been the glamour team, always been the team that attracted attention even when they were not winning things.

Football is about as popular as it can be in the U.S. The upside, the expansion and growth lies overseas.

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

Anybody involved in sports in Missouri knows it's a great sports state. It is a great sports state, particularly in basketball and baseball. Particularly. Not to demean football, but it's a baseball state and a basketball state.

Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.

It's good for basketball to grow.