Best Sports Evolution Quotes

"We don't have a Muhammad Ali anymore in boxing; our great athletes have so many other options."

"Why in every other sport can we accept the fact that players are faster, stronger, more skilled, but for some reason, basketball players stopped being good in 2000?"

"Larry Bird could not play today? Have you seen [Nikola] Jokić and [Luka] Dončić?"

"MJ was doing things we had never seen before. Now, it's routine that we see guys do Up and Under, come on one side, and we see what Dr. J was doing."

"This week, we are talking about whether the goal in cycling is shifting from going faster to going longer and why."

"There was a period where I called the Dark Ages, and it was not on TV, and it was just kind of this little renegade sport. And now it's developed into a mainstream sport."

"Moments like these, where a sport evolves in a noticeable leap, are what make sports so important."

"It's just changing the dynamics of the sport, it's just allowing so many more opportunities for dodgeballers to come out and experiment and try different things."

"Basketball had become golf, and the Mike we all know would've been the last person on Earth who would ever accept that."

"There's a generation that has only known this style of football, so their version of it has been electrifying to watch."

"I can't believe how far skateboarding has come."

"It's not gonna look the way it looked when you played. It's okay."

"The game has evolved into a much more team-oriented game than it was individual."

"Women's wrestling is at a point now where we are viewed equally as the men."

"How do you guys see the sport of MMA evolving? They'll get rid of the downward elbows."

"The ability for people to pull those types of attacks off, the ability for those people to exhibit techniques that we always said, 'Ah, don't do that,' they will be done and it will be done frequently."

"Boxing is not dead, the youngest are coming, and this is the start."

"The sport needs to evolve over time, right? Like we've sort of seen that, like boxing pay-per-view numbers have been going down, except for these influencer boxing matches which are like bringing a lot. Surprisingly successful."

"The craziest thing is like, the tricks I'm doing I was doing 10 years ago, everyone's doing now."

"This is now changing the face of boxing. This is now making boxing the greatest sport in the world again."

"It will change the landscape of how boxing is done."

"The biggest story in World football over the next few decades could well be the women's game."

"I think it's a perfect time for a guy like me who's not the biggest guard in the world but can shoot the ball; he's made it okay for teams to go out and get those type of guys and play them the way that Steph has changed the game."

"The one word that is so overused is transformative because a lot of things aren't, this is the moment that is a transformative moment for women's sports, this is the moment, it's really exciting to see."

"Formula One always has a way of reinventing itself."

"The 90s would change Steph's game a bit, but he would also change that era a bit as well. Defenses couldn't sag off of him as players just didn't bother crowding guys from 5 feet beyond the arc in those days."

"The hook shot is kind of gone by the way of the dodo."

"If the clocks could somehow be altered and each of these performers could be placed into the era where they would have had a chance to succeed the most, it could change so much about wrestling as we know it today."

"Melee and the future of Smash is still bright it still can be coming to your winning sport again look at look at the actions."

"MMA has kind of leveled up in a way that again it's not to argue that it couldn't be bigger but it's already reached that kind of a point where I don't think it can be a whole lot bigger."

"The era of replicating Ferguson is done in football."

"A rise similar to the U.S. MNT during the 1990s, with a surge in popularity and professionalism leading to World Cup qualification."

"Forget Super League, the Super League might be here in the Premier League if all the best players are going to be here."

"The artistic side that attracted so many viewers to figure skating in decades past is often being neglected in favor of jumps."

"Hashtag United has come along at the right time, shaping the love of football for a new generation of supporters."

"The economy, personality, and image of the MOBA is evolving and fast, and it's not just becoming the biggest thing in eSports but the biggest thing in sports."

"If the football we're seeing now is phase three, then phase four and five could be the most exciting time in Arsenal history."

"There's definitely going to be flaws every year there's flaws... I think that's just the evolution of the sport."

"What a game, what a series we're witnessing here. Really is the future of Rocket League mechanics leveling up right before our very eyes."

"MMA is a forever growing sport. You gotta keep evolving."

"Kai brought more introspection to the sport."

"New Japan hit form pretty much throughout the decade, creating a perfect storm."

"Green helped push the plotting big man role into extinction."

"The game's gonna evolve and I think the media is doing a bad job pushing out the narrative of how great the game and how great these players are playing because you're not understanding the beauty of the game."

"The Tony Hawk video game series is raked in over 1.6 billion dollars in sales helping to turn something that was once underground into an extreme sport that's made its way to the Olympics."

"There would be a day in the future when we could stop talking about style versus style and instead talk about athlete versus athlete."

"It's great to see the progression in women's skateboarding is going through the roof."

"If you want to be the champion of the world as well as the BMF Champion you've got to evolve with the sport."

"The evolution of the game, I believe, is making the sport a lot better as time goes on."

"I think it's the right time for eSports to take off in India."

"E-sports will be bigger than real sports in four or five years."

"Vic was the first overall pick in the 2001 draft making him the first quarterback to be so but just as important in my opinion is Vic was the first true dual threat to be taken first overall marking a shift in philosophy within the league."

"Accuracy vs. tradition: redefining the norms of archery."

"June of 2020 changed the face of this sport."

"I think this is disruptive isn't it? The most I've ever known in golf and possibly the biggest disruption ever in professional golf."

"Introduction of WWE women's tag team titles..."

"What's happening in college football right now has not always been done."

"There was an expectation in the 1960s that a cyclist could be good at all disciplines, whereas evenepoel is bucking the trend."

"Anthony Davis and Karl-Anthony Towns are the two big men who are currently leading a revolution of the entire NBA."

"The fear is that two might become four might become eight with the Champions League becoming more and more of a closed shop."

"If boxing is going to go and be productive into the future, you should look at the products that maintain the value."

"Progression which is what X Games is all about."

"Drivers will be at the center of the future of Formula One."

"It just further shows that they put more eSports on the map for it."

"Lamar Jackson, he's redefined what it means to be a dual-threat signal caller. Oh, he broke his ankles."

"The sport has been progressing non-stop for the past few years."

"The NFL says that flag football is at the heart of football future."

"Football's changed so much that difference makers are pieces of the puzzle now."

"Huge submission-only revolution gets started."

"The personalities inside this team are changing and everybody seemingly from that game there against Liverpool everyone's on board of it now."

"The rise of African ancestry for the first time ever we see West Africans Conquering the top rankings of bodybuilders around the world."

"The game has become more and more a player's game."

"It's hard to envision a time when the UFC wasn't the top brand in mixed martial arts."

"Kelsey has become the prototype for the modern-day receiving tight end."

"A generation of talent that has changed the game forever."

"This is the future of cycling... it feels like you're in the future of cycling."

"As I say, life is, everyone is always pushing the envelope you never know what sports are they going to keep pushing the envelope in sports."

"The height of the NBA is going to start to go up."

"This is what modern basketball looks like and it's so different."

"Celebrating diversity in cycling: from new development teams to showcasing black champions, the sport is evolving."

"Football has changed a lot and there is a generation of fan now that has zero patience and zero respect."

"When you look back at the 2010s and think about positionless basketball, you quickly forget that tall guys did not just disappear—they actually got better."

"MMA is far from perfect... We've gone from bloodsport to Cobra Kai, a more digestible package of violence presentable to audiences around the world."

"It's a historic kind of a classic movie because it really captures a time when bodybuilding was just coming out of the closet so to speak or the basement and became a huge sport."

"I feel like we're at a point in time where the level of play and the base level of talent is higher."

"I think women's hockey's moving the needle and I think that's so great to see that change."

"These ten fights changed the very face of MMA and were key in its development as a sport."

"Skill-based passing has really changed I feel like how you can throw the ball and cut off defenders for making plays even cut off routes itself."

"The game today is completely unrecognizable from its former self."

"He brought the style to fighting that changed the sport forever."

"It's not just a game, it's a competitive sport, a new brand of athlete."

"This is only the tip of the iceberg for what's to come from Japanese baseball."

"It's been incredible to watch the evolution of combat sports."

"Level six in my eyes is a kick flip. It's crazy to think that many people understand what a kickflip is these days because when we first saw Rodney Mullen do it we didn't understand how he made his board flip."

"Sport and athleticism will be reborn in probably a more interesting way."

"We are at the dawn of the golden age of college football."

"The Mel Blount rule laid the foundation for a shift towards the almost entirely passing-oriented game that we see nowadays."

"In the past three seasons, baseball has seen some of the best bat flips and most dramatic dugout celebrations in history, and thanks to people like Tim Anderson, nobody has to get hit in the head for doing it."

"Before the Olympics, I doubt gymnastics was what it is now. I'd imagine it was probably closer to parkour at least in terms of innovation and whatnot."

"The Nuggets have ended the small ball era. They have a bigger team that reminds you of an 80s 90s style of basketball."

"It's a whole new era for the modern day of boxing."

"It's not about that vintage type of defender anymore, it's not about the three-star feeling."

"Garnett was an evolutionary leap forward at nearly seven feet without shoes."

"There is a montage of clips from Sasha and Charlotte's Hell in a Cell match showcasing just how far the women in the wrestling industry have come."

"I think cycling is going in the direction of surfing and skating where you can be a professional without being on a professional team."

"I think we won't get anyone to those sort of levels because individualism is going out of football, and I want it back. I want it back as well."

"I think Max is the new generation and is maybe approaching it differently."

"The game is changing... we have to learn to embrace the new things."

"We're going through an interesting transition in the MMA game."

"A new generation of judoka have arrived and those that managed to fend them off have proved themselves worthy of the title of champion."

"YouTube golf is gonna change, folks."

"The NBA is so talented right now, that is why, bro. You gotta understand, when I was growing up, like a team would have like one, maybe two good players and the rest of your players were, they couldn't even do [ __ ] that those two players could do."

"It's no longer just one guy, I think the league has gotten too good."

"It's amazing where the position has almost evolved from."

"You know now sidearm throws, like all this stuff, it's just part of the game."

"So we grow as a game, whereas if we continue to go nut, nut, you have to play for Australia, we are just destined to die as a game."

"The league I joined 42 years ago is so much better now than it ever was."

"You have to evolve with the sport."

"The game has moved on, hasn't it? Balls faster, players are fitter, stronger, equipment is really fine-tuned."

"We stood on the shoulders of those guys, the 70s and the 80s, you know, that's why origin is what it is now."

"We're entering an entirely New Era of the sport."

"It's incredible, the fireworks at the start would have thought that that would have been happening in women's football 10 years ago."

"It's amazing, it's absolutely incredible to see how much the sport of bowling has changed and immersed across the entire world."

"The recent success of women's college basketball players may pave a path in the not so far future of women and men just enjoying the sport together."

"The game has changed, the culture has changed."

"The game has changed tremendously over the years, and now we see the finest players in the history of the game once again."

"They're these new video game type players where they just everything's just moving at a higher rate and they are just freaks of nature."

"Are we witnessing the future of the NBA?"

"It's almost more exciting to watch these days because you're watching progression happen very rapidly at every session."

"The sport has come such a long way, and I think it's going to be miles ahead of where it was back then."

"In this era, you have to actually use skill and can't hide behind being a tough guy."

"The game changed forever... it did change football forever, really."

"Rugby laws are always evolving to keep up with how the contest is evolving over time."

"The game was just perfect in the late 2000s; defense was still a great point of emphasis, games could get physical without turning into a total bloodbath."

"The game has changed, the game has evolved."

"People don't necessarily realize that in the last 20 years, that's completely flipped."

"I'm gonna continue to watch it; I'm really interested to see where this ends up, will it be like a pro sport with competitions or will it stay as an underground sport."

"There's nothing wrong with skateboarding becoming a more mainstream sport."

"It's official, the soft game in pickleball is dead. Or is it?"

"They were incredible what they did and changing the sport of tag team wrestling."

"It's lit for sure, 7 on 7 definitely taking over the 7 on 7 world."

"It's the future of the sport, I'm just proud to be part of it."

"Whistler kind of really started it and then took it to the next level."

"The balance and the strength of these guys is this time unbelievable, it gets better and better every year, and the tracks get a little tougher too."

"In the coming years, it would redefine the sport altogether, pushing it to levels of fame and difficulty never before seen."

"Are NBA players getting too good at basketball?"

"It's crazy how much the NBA has changed in like 10, 15 years."

"It's so inspiring and amazing how this sport went from such a white-dominated sport to now in the United States literally our top five is majority black girls."

"Like a disc dancing on air, we now have evolved into a team sport of a game called ultimate."

"This sport has evolved and we've watched it evolve."

"I believe LeBron James will change the game. He is the positionless player."

"By the 2000s, ODI cricket was massive, the biggest format."

"Both Saban and Kirby Smart were talking about the changing times in college football."

"Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that women's wrestling has been taking the industry by storm."

"And this year the future of women's lacrosse arrived faster, sharper, and tougher, and more exciting than ever."

"In the last 10 years alone, women's wrestling has evolved about 150 years."

"The sport is changing right now and it's changing for the good."

"The march of progress... will gradually move towards a more accurate and ultimately fairer game."

"Once one brave person is prepared to do so, others will follow, and the game will be forced to confront some of its failures."

"The explosion of the three-pointer in the NBA is probably our most notable change."

"I think you're bringing an entirely new focus to bodybuilding which is making people love it more."

"These guys are pushing the envelope, it is epic to see where we're going with this sport."

"Baseball's like a year or two away from having its full Renaissance."

"Nowadays the competitors are lifting insane amounts of weight compared to the weights they were lifting 20 to 30 years ago."

"What does this mean for the bowling world, seeing Lithuania now crowned as the world men's doubles champions? It means the sport of bowling has reached a new height."

"The Brazilians were not content to simply replicate a foreign sport; they sought to develop and make it their own."

"Mark my words, 10 years from now you're not going to see the same coaches coaching the Olympians."

"Small ball is upon us, no centers but endless three-pointers as far as the eye can see."

"That just shows the evolution of the sport and how much stronger these competitors have gotten."

"The players today are more 'athletic', jumping ability, speed, then ever."

"They shoot particularly with range better than ever."

"It's a testament to the evolution of women's wrestling as a whole."

"I love that golf's becoming a little bit of like a sport, possibly rather than an old man's game."

"It was really cool seeing the evolution of women's wrestling has come such a long way."

"Thirty years later, it's still leading the future of sport."

"I think this match really kind of sums up how much women's wrestling has changed over the years."

"The evolution of the NBA has definitely been something to see; every era being different, players and teams over the years evolving and fitting in what's most effective for their era."

"The game has changed and it's just developed incredibly in the last few years."

"I think UFC and MMA have come so far that they won't get cancelled."

"It's so impressive, it just also goes to show the evolution of our sport."

"In less than 10 years, basketball became a massively different game."

"The game has changed so much, and it's so hard to guard anybody now."

"You're basically seeing the evolution of something that's quite new in sporting terms here."

"We've seen football change drastically over the years."

"We now have evolved into a part of a game called ultimate; it stands by itself in that it is like no other game."

"It's amazing to see now the real difference in women's cycling."

"We're in 2024 now and we've got a whole different car, but the whole sport was changed over those years."

"I'm super excited where this sport is going, and I'm stoked being part of this windfoil revolution."

"I think it's been a really good thing for the sport, loads of factors to it but if you look at the sport, it's so much more diverse which I personally think is a very good thing."

"A true hockey fight is so rare... fighting came, fighting went, and it ain't coming back."

"It's amazing, even from 2014 to 2018 now, the skill and the speed of the game is getting so much faster and so much better even every four years."

"It's the evolution of basketball; there's going to be better players, more freak athletes that can do multiple things."

"It's really exciting to see what ebi and combat Jiu Jitsu has done as far as becoming a spectator sport."

"France Unchained is the best thing to happen to cycling in the last 20 years."

"The Springboks of that era developed the 3-4-1 setup in the scrum, the forbear of today's packs."

"Sure, this is triathlon, but it's also something you have never seen before."

"The game's just trending in a great direction."

"Managers have become more important because it's become so systematic and tactical."

"These guys with well-rounded games are a lot more Championship worthy, it seems, over the past couple of years of the sport."

"That's always good to see our game continue to evolve."