Morgan Freeman Quotes

I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.

Morgan Freeman

• Basketball
• Soccer
• Rugby
• Foreign Language
• American Football

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• My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Me
  • Born
  • Playing

• My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of big stars - Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble - and I don't ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Football
  • Star
  • Player

• I had a sketch called 'Fedora Basketball,' which was about basketball players having to wear hats; in addition to scoring points, they have to make sure their fedoras don't fall off.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Fall
  • Basketball
  • Sketch

• I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Player
  • Choice
  • Tennis

• Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • World
  • Different
  • Soccer

• A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn't going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Up
  • Free
  • Giving

• When, you know, when you're playing basketball, you have to have confidence in your moves if they're gonna work.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Work
  • Confidence
  • Basketball

• Basketball players aren't always the best dressers.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Best
  • Always
  • Basketball

• Not every kid plays football, basketball. Running can be a source to vent and let things out.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Running
  • Football
  • Basketball

• Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Money
  • Knowledge
  • Player

• Like it or not, I've come to appreciate soccer. Any kid can play, which fits with the inclusive agenda of progressive schools. Although the corollary to 'any kid can play' is that every kid must play because there is an iron grip to the warm hug of progressive inclusionism.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Soccer
  • Hug
  • Warm

• I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my soccer team were fighting because of dyads and triads.

  

  Halsey
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Team

• Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Life
  • Basketball

• All three of my kids play soccer. Each one of them started from the time they were about 5 or 6, and we just love it.

  

  Lisa Vidal
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Soccer

• All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

  

  Freddy Adu
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Creativity

• I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.

  

  Eric Williams Blackstreet
  • Why
  • Game
  • Pretty

• Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Myself
  • Football
  • Thought

• It's easy for me to cry. I'm just emotionally tuned in to stuff. It probably helps with my songwriting.

  

  Benji Hughes

• Why, when an athlete says something, why is it downplayed or considered not OK? I've always challenged that notion.

  

  Jaylen Brown
  • Why
  • Athlete

• Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

  

  John Barrymore
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Trouble

• I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Basketball
  • Soccer
  • Rugby