Organized Sports Quotes:

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

- LeBron James

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

topic: Sports, Thinking, Firsts, Organized Sports, Playing Sports

The physical exercise and emotional stretching that children enjoy in unorganized play is more varied and less time-bound than is found in organized sports. Playtime—especially unstructured, imaginative, exploratory play—is increasingly recognized as an essential component of wholesome child development.

- Richard Louv

source: Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.44, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Sports, Children, Exercise, Organized Sports, Child Development

In no organized sport do the participants have to endure days of struggle just to get to the starting line of their event. The option to drop out of a race that is going badly does not exist for a climber halfway up a big route, and may entail more risk than pushing on. A team of volunteers will not be waiting with warm blankets and hot food at the next bivy ledge. When you reach the summit, having overcome the challenges that inspired you for months or years, you are not at the finish line. The race is not over. You can't relax and let your guard down like a normal athlete.

- Steve House

source: Source: www.omnivoracious.com

topic: Sports, Team, Struggle, Pushing On, Climbers

I hate to lose, and if anybody gets used to losing they are going to be a loser. I'd like to tell you losing is part of the game, and it is, but I hated it. I still hate to lose. And that will never change. By the way, just because I turned the page and poured all my energies into business does not mean that I don't miss organized sports. I do.

- Donald Trump

topic: Sports, Hate, Mean, Organized Sports

Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

- John Green

source: John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.16, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Sports, Goal, One Day, Organized Sports

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

- Alan Shepard

topic: Sports, School, Yards, Organized Sports, Recess

I think it's very important, even if you're not in organized sports, but just to be active, to be healthy.

- Allyson Felix

source: "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. October 25, 2012.

topic: Sports, Thinking, Healthy, Organized Sports