US Sports Quotes

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.

Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States.

Football's the biggest game in the world. America's the greatest sporting nation there is. To play some part in putting those two things together: why wouldn't I be excited about that?

I think I'm being conservative when I say there are more people playing soccer in the United States than in 90% of the world's other countries, probably 95%.

I love the USADA.

Hawaii doesn't win many games in the United States.

A new sport is being created every day in the U.S.

Canadians see the Americans as cousins. We love the same sports: Canadians are crazy about baseball and basketball, and our beloved game of hockey is played all over the U.S.

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

The only thing we know for sure about superiority in sports in the United States of America in the 20th century is that Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics teams he led stand alone as the ultimate winners.

If the players aren't getting paid, there's something terribly, terribly wrong, and that's true only in the United States. Everywhere else, where money is involved with sport, the players get paid. But these poor kids in college, they're doing it for free, and that's just disgraceful.

Badminton is not popular in the U.S. because I think the mentality of badminton has to change.

America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S.

My dream is eventually becoming the greatest talent to come out of the United States and New York, being a starter, and playing for my country.

I didn't know football was so big. Obviously, it's huge in the United States.

When you think about martial arts here in the states, kickboxing was here in the '70s, and it kind of ran its course. But I always felt there was a place in combat sports for kickboxing.

You can't obviously predict the future, but I am a fan of the United States and soccer over there continues to grow.