"Since 2017, Slap Fight Championship has been traveling across the country, building and developing the sport of slapping, discovering new talent."
"College basketball is gonna be fine. There's always gonna be players like Luka Garza and Obi Toppin who did not start as top recruits and had to work to where they are."
"Rising Ballers...have actually created pathways for footballers to go into the pro game."
"I think India needs a landmark event, like holding a World Cup, which would of course mean automatic qualification, in order to give birth to a second golden generation of Indian football and prompt more nationwide development of the game."
"We are bringing young people to non-league football. That's something that seriously needs rejuvenation."
"Having money in the sport brings more opportunities, more people being able to live off the sport, and thus the sport would get bigger."
"My main goal is growing skateboarding in Uganda, in Africa as well."
"George St Pierre is the new breed of mixed martial artist."
"This is something that the sport really needed."
"More games in a group stage environment... it's only good for the development of the game." - Positive outlook on the new Champions League format.
"Thank you to all of you for helping make League of Legends a global sport."
"The future is bright for American soccer, does anybody care? I think we do now 'cause we've got the guy."
"Any income to the women's game right now is huge."
"It's a dream of any club to have a core of players that you've brought through yourself."
"Every single one of these races counts in building that experience and they'll take everything away from this, learn from it, build on it, and hopefully come back stronger for it."
"For English rugby to be successful sustainably successful they have to widen the pool of recruitment."
"We were treated to seeing one of our young players from the academy grace our pitch against Burnley."
"The sport has progressed so much over the last three years."
"I think the entire sport is elevated. Yes, you have great people involved, but there's more prize money, more incentive to do well."
"I wanted to get to a situation where the sport became bigger, better. An arm wars are so as a vehicle to that."
"Detaine praised Sataka for having succeeded in training players with mediocre abilities to have high confidence and become a strong team that was hard to beat."
"If India win the world test Championship, do you think that would they would see some sort of increase in development of test Cricket generally speaking?"
"I really admire Coach Ukai for giving Yamaguchi multiple chances to develop."
"The NBA had so many years to develop, eSports is in its infancy."
"I think it's just good... reinforcing that and giving like some sort of like connection between the partnership system and that tier 2 league."
"The seismic potential of the 2026 World Cup for Canada, cementing their status as contenders in both men and women's football."
"A rise similar to the U.S. MNT during the 1990s, with a surge in popularity and professionalism leading to World Cup qualification."
"My contribution has been to make the sport a little more accessible to more people and helping to drive its growth."
"Austin Jackson... start developing a guy who has a ton of upside."
"And there’s also no question that he worked harder, that he hustled more, and that he helped to build the Western esports scene around him."
"It's a relief isn't it for everybody in the sport that we're getting this because we've had some big ones this year and the heavyweight division was dragging its feet a bit."
"Don is synonymous with hockey and has played an integral role in growing the game over the past 40 years."
"It's patience... United are getting there now."
"There's definitely going to be flaws every year there's flaws... I think that's just the evolution of the sport."
"It's possible that he'll adapt and become better and better in the midfield too as he reaches his peak years."
"I think the future of disc golf doesn't have a limit on how big it could be."
"Every fighter has maybe one loss or undefeated. I strongly feel that this is what boxing needs." - Oscar De La Hoya
"It just clicked on him and he just went through the roof." - Kevin Ferroz's progression
"Robinson's rise to stardom from his freshman to sophomore season was both unexpected and extreme."
"Michigan, one of the best programs in the country, developmentally."
"I absolutely love it when players come through the Academy."
"If there is one thing that Ireland's next generation is lacking most crucially in my view it is a truly Elite level or potentially Elite level Central or holding midfielder."
"The whole thing is about growing the sport. It's definitely working."
"I hope he absolutely mugs us off in the sense that goes off and becomes a good player."
"We need some people in this football club above the manager who can build the club again."
"The evolution of the game, I believe, is making the sport a lot better as time goes on."
"This shouldn't be looked at as a failure. Southeast Asian football needs a strong Indonesian national team."
"Our style of play needs to start from the youth to the first team, not individuals."
"The best way to have baseball grow is to ensure that baseball continues."
"We want to be nourishing and nurturing players to become Top Class players."
"From unknown youth academy players to diamonds in the rough."
"We are stronger as a sport now in a post-covered world than we were before."
"The system that creates these NBA players...everything has been fine-tuned, and it is definitively better."
"He's the flash, but what he's developed now, he's developed this very, very extremely powerful forehand."
"All the successful teams in history of football are based on players raised from the Academy."
"He sorted out the best basketball program for me and wanted me to get out of the city."
"The 2006 season is a great example of why the development wars are so crucial and entertaining for Formula One."
"It's moving toward being one of the boxing capitals of the world."
"The biggest part of that great news is the fact we've got a women's Tour de France potentially."
"From the Barça academies to the first team, Eddie Garcia making it three-nil for Barça."
"International youth tournaments: the birthplace of future stars, where legends are born and heroes are made."
"The NFL says that flag football is at the heart of football future."
"She's growing the game. The most beautiful thing out of it all."
"Not only did Roman Abramovich save Chelsea from almost oblivion in 2003, he bankrolled them into one of the biggest and best clubs in Europe."
"I feel like all that investment we're putting in the youth teams is coming to fruition."
"Let the players grow the league, let the players be the stars, let them shine."
"Prince Khalid is the driving force behind boxing in Saudi."
"The future of Filipino basketball is bright."
"Innovation in one sport can spread across to the others as well."
"Our goal and what has remained my goal is to build this sport into the biggest sport in the world."
"The one thing about quarterback play is it's a process. It takes time, ebbs and flows, and the great ones, you know, they have ups, they have downs, but they keep growing and they keep getting better."
"I think we're on the rise, I think there's like a lot of talent and it's now gravitating towards soccer."
"We need to be competing on all levels, we need to have the best Youth System, the best training facilities, the best setup for the women's everything."
"We gotta fix the foundations fix the foundation for the current players fix the foundation for those that are wanting to play this game."
"Genuinely great to see the growth of the women's game in this country."
"I do like the fact that Chelsea have got people like Tomori and Mount and Tammy Abraham and you know, Reece James, young British players coming through, that's exciting."
"This is not 1999, it's not the year 2000 anymore, you just pluck kids from the streets or from the gyms, these youngsters have got to come through the right way."
"Enormous growth, especially in Africa, Asia, and the women's game worldwide."
"It's the world of course the world is going to produce better players."
"We all are on a mission to bring arm wrestling to the level it deserves."
"We are really at the end of this saga...the newest superstars are right in front of our eyes and they're really starting to play into their primes."
"She brought a lot to women's MMA... she made the sport better."
"A team that is known for growing insane players."
"He's going to be a huge player for this club."
"Hopefully we start to see him really come into his own as a starting pitcher and a part of our future."
"Academy is all xlcs watched up players not all of it but majority yes a lot of it yes bro Jesus yes and players who will never be given a shot so what is the point of having an academy team in the first place there is none there is no point."
"It's been incredible to watch the evolution of combat sports."
"Every great team has an identity... I think we're starting to build an identity."
"If Frank Lampard gives meaning four minutes to these youngsters, the next great Chelsea side might not be next year or the year after, but there are players there who can create that foundation."
"I think you could actually expand the Dana White Contender series and have it a mixture of day one hungry guys coming in and guys that are on the way out."
"I think that we have a possibility, the financial possibility. We have, we are building a new stadium, and so we know that behind us there is a fantastic supporters, fantastic fan that help us to be motivated."
"Without grassroots football, there wouldn't be professional football."
"We kind of grew the game and catapulted women's soccer back into the mainstream."
"If the FAI doesn't encourage grassroots football, then we can kiss goodbye to ever playing at a World Cup ever again."
"Gibraltar moved overnight from an amateur to a more modern and professional football world."
"Disc golf is at the point right now where it's time to grow."
"Nothing should still be taken away from the fact that we need to make the sport a more global and popular sport within India."
"He's becoming what we thought he would become, which is a legitimate SEC ace."
"I think it's important for us to try to get the great athletes growing up to play tennis."
"There's wasted opportunity, there's tons of American kids that can be freaking good, which also means Team USA could be good. And you know, and we'll just go on from there. But the pace is very slow, we're still way behind."
"It's what the sport needed. It's what Formula 1 needed as a whole."
"The closest thing I have to an answer to fix this broken system can be summed up in two words: invest locally."
"Our system is flawed, there's no doubt about that. But 2020 has actually been a year which displays a great improvement in our development system."
"Creating competitive opportunities at all levels as we build a future for the sport."
"To have that vision to start something that has become a way of life, a culture, a sport practiced all over the world, one man, right, that's crazy."
"From kicking tees to cups of tea, protecting the future of the game, making the stars of tomorrow."
"The bigger that the sport gets, the better it is for everyone."
"I'm just grateful to be here, grateful to be part of the team, and just keep growing the sport."
"I believe Ivy has the tools to become a good player, will he become it? You never know."
"The Indian Super League was founded in late 2014... and I'm sure Indian football will reap the benefits from this more than we have already."
"We've done great things to develop women's football."
"United could actually have five or six academy graduates become first team squad members within the next two years."
"He continues to be a pioneer in this space and has already made a huge difference."
"Soccer is an international sport and in order for it to grow you need to take the international perspective."
"USA Hockey's done an incredible job with grassroots in all these different markets."
"The best way for the sport to develop is from good relationships between the promoters."
"It's all part of growing pains of the sport."
"How can it be a bad thing for the sport? I think it's just what we need at the right time."
"The future of BMX for that whole continent is amazing."
"This is part of growing the sport in this country."
"I love where women's football is now."
"Ethan Walker just 18 years old out of Newton, Iowa, he's a great example of the way that you can just develop so much in a short amount of time."
"I think the sport is definitely in the right direction, a lot more exposure than we did last year."
"The development in women's cycling in the last five years has shot up."
"I think it's gonna be a big development year for the Spurs."
"If you're going to progress this sport to an acceptable and a reasonable standard that people can accept, having a proper standardized set of rules has to be near the top of the list."
"They're the future Olympians of the world."
"Football is evolving every year, it changes and we know that, but more importantly, the players are evolving too."
"This is where the game needs to continue heading."
"We have to grow the game. That's a duty that we have."
"This is going to be our first game which is really a part of an experimental phase where we can try new things."
"We need to be very precise in supporting and making opportunities come alive for them."
"Italy showed a lot of fight; it's a team and a country that's still learning about this great game."
"World Netball is lifting across all the continents."
"You've seen players starting as young as 13 or even younger growing up in this system, training together, building chemistry, pushing each other."
"They got some good young kids, they got some outstanding Young Junior sides here at the moment."
"We have to develop football everywhere, not England and Germany only."
"The next future generation of our Queenslanders, of our Australian players, it starts here."
"I want to see the game get better and these players reach their full potential."
"The NBA is all about progression, both with teams and with players."
"If you give us, give Nigeria, not even us, man, give the country 10 good pitches, well looked after, I promise you, fam."
"It's a real developmental summer for what England's pace attack will be moving forward."
"The principle is that long term, that supports the growth of better soccer players in the future."
"He's had a wonderful season, hasn't he? Gained fantastic experience and we've seen how Chelsea loanees tend to grow by their experience of being on loan, particularly in the Championship."
"Everybody should just collectively be coming together to grow women's hockey."
"I feel like I helped grow women's basketball this year."
"That's an exciting thing to see for the sport."
"Let's keep growing the game, dude, for England, man."
"Some of the younger boys are standing up really well over the last few weeks."
"In the NFL, great players make great coaches; in college, great coaches can make great players."
"The most exciting thing for me in the women's game at the moment is looking forward to the next five years."