Popular Sport Quotes

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

Steve Nash

#2. Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

Magnus Carlsen

#3. Hey, I see people manacled to log walls all the time. You bet. It's a popular sport in Bear Flat. Gonna replace fishing soon.

Cherise Sinclair

#4. If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish.

Hal Borland

#5. I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.

Garry Kasparov

#6. The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.

Eduardo Galeano

#7. If we are to elevate the game of chess to a popular sport, grandmasters must become gladiators, otherwise the game will languish on the periphery, a voice crying in the wilderness, condemned to live and die on a cold arctic shore.

Michael Basman

#8. Badminton is not a popular sport in India.

Saina Nehwal

#9. It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world.

Claudio Reyna

#10. I grew up surrounded by tennis, so I was obviously more interested in it than football - particularly as it's the most popular sport.

Stanislas Wawrinka

#11. This new sport is comparable to no other. It is, in my opinion, one of the most intoxicating forms of sport, and will, I am sure, become one of the most popular. Many of us will perish before then, but that prospect will not dismay the braver spirits ... It is so delicious to fly like a bird!

Marie Marvingt

#12. In a sport like this - hard work, not much glory, but still popular in every century - well, there must be some beauty which ordinary men can't see, but extraordinary men do. - George Yeoman Pocock

Daniel James Brown

#13. We live in an age where ... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.

Pat Buchanan

#14. Polo really is a European sport. It's not really that popular in America. I'm not an expert on the sport, but it's fun to watch.

David Lauren

#15. I was a pretty popular kid, and I participated in every sport.

Tim Howard

#16. Now she has lived long enough to know that cutting up women is a sport older than cricket but just as popular and equally full of obscure rituals and intricate rules that everyone seems to know except her.

Mohammed Hanif

#17. People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.

Andrea Bocelli

#18. A peaceful refuge in which to rediscover each other, we thought,, not realizing that, while golf and fishing are Scotland's most popular outdoor sports, gossip is the most popular indoor sport.

Diana Gabaldon

#19. Every popular zillion dollar sport has its share of personal scandals around the sport and its leadership.

Rachel Maddow

#20. Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well.

Henrietta Onodi

#21. I was born in Argentina where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He's the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport.

Nacho Figueras

#22. Why is the N.F.L. so popular? The N.F.L. grew in the comfort zone after World War II. People had money and time. A popular American sport got bigger.

George Vecsey

#23. My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.

Roger Bannister

#24. Cock-fighting, which has attained to the dignity of a literature of its own, is the popular Malay sport; but the grand sport is a tiger and buffalo fight, reserved for rare occasions, however, on account of its expense. Cock-fighting is a source of gigantic gambling and desperate feuds.

Isabella Bird

#25. Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.

Novak Djokovic