Children Quote by David Elkind

Our children need socialization with their peers and playing sports is a large part of that.

— Nicole Malliotakis

I get a lot of parents coming up to me, telling me they are grooming their kids to be professional athletes. I'm really against…

— Wayne Gretzky

Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun…

— Dean Kamen

I think we should bring up our children with much less pressure to compete and get ahead: no comparing one child with another, at…

— Benjamin Spock

I'm convinced that promoting sport is an intelligent way of educating our children.

— Shakira

I hate the cliche of 'just have fun,' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure…

— Hope Solo

It's important for parents to put kids in positions where they can succeed and to teach competition because competition exists not only in sports.

— Ray Allen

We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport.…

— Boris Johnson

It's important to give kids a variety of sports. Everyone is an individual, everyone is different but there is a sport out there for…

— Ellie Simmonds

Kids should be encouraged to compete.

— Twyla Tharp

We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs,…

— Darell Hammond

Children need sports, even if they are inclined towards academics.

— Brian Lara