We are a bunch of sports lovers interested in providing insights to sports and all things sport
"Without the ball, you can’t win.” – Johan Cruyff
“Football is about joy. It’s about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.” – Ronaldinho
“To me, soccer is so much more than a ball and two goals; it connects people from all of the corners of the world.”- Unknown Author
“To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent.” – Johan Cruyff
“A penalty is a cowardly way to score.”-Pelé
“My only concern is playing. Everything else, my family looks after. In our house, everyone has a job, and my job in our house is to play soccer.” – Ronaldinho
“Quality without results is pointless. Results without quality is boring.” – Johan Cruyff
“When you buy me you are buying a Ferrari.”-Zlatan Ibrahimovic
“I just hate losing and that gives you an extra determination to work harder.”-Wayne Rooney
“You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.”-Lionel Messi
“The first 90 minutes are the most important.”- Sir Robert William “Bobby” Robson
“When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.”- Diego Maradona
“I don’t have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, I treat my job as a hobby. It’s something I love doing.”-David Beckham
“Becoming a footballer is only the first half of the silent prayer a kid offers up to the sky or confides to his teacher in a primary school essay. The second part is the name of the team he wants to play for.”- Andrea Pirlo
“The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.”- Pelé
Most sports of today only developed in their current form in the 19th and 20th century, though many take their origins from more primitive sports and pastimes of ancient times.
Although it is impossible to know for sure, it is usually considered that wrestling and boxing were the first sports every played. Competitions using the simple mode of human transport, running, would also have been among the first sports played.
Competitions involving hitting, kicking, throwing a ball like object, as well as sports related to hunting and throwing would also be expected to have be played in early times.
There are many sports that have developed as competitions from means of early transportation, such as horse riding and canoeing, and from military activities such as archery.
At the first recorded ancient Olympic Games in 760 BC, there was only one event, a footrace. Later Games included other events such as wrestling, boxing, equestrian, discus, javelin, and jumping. From around the same time, the only sport mentioned in the Bible is said to be wrestling (see Bible sporting quotes).
The most popular sport played around the world today, Association football (soccer), has its origins from China (see Soccer History). There is evidence in China that military forces around 2nd and 3rd century BC (Han Dynasty) played a game, originally named "Tsu Chu", that involved kicking a leather ball stuffed with fur into a small hole. Like Soccer, no hands were permitted during the play of the game.
