Playing Sports Quotes - Page 2

• I wasn't a huge fan of the comic book, but I definitely was of the cartoon series. I wasn't much for sitting around and reading as a kid, I preferred to be outside running around and playing sports, but I was absolutely thrilled to get the role of Colossus. I don't think I realised how popular the character was until I got the role and started doing some research; it was then that I really fell in love with the character of Colossus myself.

  Daniel Cudmore

  Sports, Running, Book

  Source: me.askmen.com

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• Sport for me is about inspiring kids. Here's the rules, here's the play area, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. This is all about teaching kids how to approach life. If we're not playing sport to benefit kids, I'm not really sure why we play sport.

  Russell Crowe

  Sports, Teaching, Kids

  "Russell Crowe, The Water Diviner Interview". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. April, 2015.

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• In all of my life, when I was playing sports, I always put 100 percent. I have always given the best.

  Garfield Sobers

  Sports, Given, Percent

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• Whether it was hunting, fishing, or playing sports, my children were going to grow up outside. They weren't going to be sitting on the couch inside. At least they didn't grow up to be nerds.

  Phil Robertson

  Sports, Children, Growing Up

  Phil Robertson (2013). “Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.

  Willie Mays

  Sports, Games, Two

  "Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.

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• I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports.

  Kellan Lutz

  Sports, Add, Needs

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• I like playing sport, and I like doing physical stuff. I like hiking and I like climbing and I like playing sport. I do a lot. But I don't like the term 'exercising.' I feel like with sport, you're playing games. But with exercise, you're literally just trying to stop yourself from dying too young. It's weird.

  James McAvoy

  Sports, Exercise, Climbing

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• I love playing sport.

  Damian Lewis

  Sports

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• Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Play, Parent

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

  LeBron James

  Sports, Thinking, Firsts

  Interview With Larry King, www.cnn.com. June 2, 2010.

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• Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Motivational, Leadership, Girl

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• First off, do everything they can to give their kids the opportunities to play sports; asthma is not a deterrent to playing sports.

  Dominique Wilkins

  Basketball, Sports, Kids

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• For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

  Kurt Russell

  Sports, Men, Guy

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• As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.

  Caity Lotz

  Sports, Art, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Where I grew up, acting wasn't really accessible. I was just playing sports. But, I did watch a lot of TV. I watched a lot of Clint Eastwood movies on TV and had this fantasy of being like him when I grew up.

  Bailey Chase

  Sports, Acting, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• I was playing sports all the time, growing up. And then, somewhere around 10th or 11th grade, I kind of lost interest in that and just started reading a lot. I didn't know what to read. I didn't have much direction outside of school.

  John Brandon

  Sports, Growing Up, Reading

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Talking about and analyzing sports isn't the same as playing sports.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Sports, Talking, Analyzing

  "The Fix Live". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 12, 2016.

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• The only exercise I get is playing sports because I hate the gym. I try to learn to love it.

  Paul Dano

  Sports, Hate, Exercise

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that it is very interesting to write about a team because a team is a group of people who work in very close quarters and have very intense relationships so - in my days of playing sports, I was very rarely on a team that did not have it's own peculiar dynamic, and you wind up having very intense feelings for good and for bad about these people with whom you spend many hours a day.

  Chad Harbach

  Sports, Team, Writing

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Sports, Children, Team

  Interview With James Bassil, www.askmen.com.

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• My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.

  Mark Teixeira

  Sports, Memories, Dad

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• I didn't really get into boys until my junior year of high school, when I had my first boyfriend. But for the most part I was always playing sports, so I was too busy for them!

  Jennie Finch

  Sports, School, Boys

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• Everybody deserves a shot at playing sports. It shouldn't matter in the least if that person is gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. Building community through healthy and inclusive activities should be one of the main focuses behind athletics, and that isn't possible if you exclude LGBT individuals, especially our youth.

  Mardy Fish

  Sports, Gay, Bisexual

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• I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.

  Kara Lindsay

  Sports, Drama, School

  "Diva Talk: Chatting With Newsies Star Kara Lindsay". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.

  Taylor Lautner

  Sports, Football, Shooting

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