Were you/are you good at sports

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I was an angry nerd until college. When I left the nerd crowd, I learned to appreciate it.

I was decent at gymnastics, a failure at everything else.

I'm the fastest walker in my school, though people tell me I look weird when I walk every now and then.

Other than that, I fail at sports. I was average at badmington (however you spell it...) but that was because the "ball" moved at a slow pace and wasn't too hard to hit.

I utterely fail at team sports, I have no idea what my team mates are trying to do and when they pass me the ball I'm never prepared. This leads to me dropping the ball and being yelled at...

I'm a reasonable runner, although I'm quite out of shape now. Team sports usually confuse me and I tend to do my own thing anyways when I'm participating in those.

Nope...played (American) football in high school and couldn't keep up with all of the plays. At least I wasn't alone; my football team, the 1995 South Brunswick High School junior-varsity team, was one of the worst teams ever assembled in the history of the sport. Not only did my team not win a game, we never scored a single point: no touchdowns, no field goals, no safeties. Our best performance was losing to a team almost as bad as us 12-0; we'd usually lose 75-0 or some other god-awfully high score.

I did love to play basketball by myself as a kid, but never wanted to play with anyone else.

Also threw the shot put and discus on the track and field team, but wasn't any better. I once angled the discus the wrong way and it landed about three feet in front of me; I think I could have thrown it further with my feet.

The most satisfying thing I ever did on the track team was accidentally hit a teammate with a rubber discus during practice; he wasn't hurt and I was actually impressed at my throw. That must be what it feels like to hit a hole in one playing golf (another sport I suck at).

Doesn't mean I don't like sports...I'm a big sports fan.

i am not interested in "sport". some people in australia say "how'ya going sport?" and i am disinclined to answer because i am not a "sport".

i am not a "good sport" or a "bad sport" or anything to do with "sport".
i never saw what good it would do for me to excersize my musculature in a way that enabled me to achieve results that are competitive with "talented" (sportswise) humans.

humans are not very interesting when it comes to physical ability.

i can not understand the dissimilarity of admiration that humans have for the physical achievements of their own kind compared with the physical achievements of "dumb" (so called) animals when they must know that in the animal kingdom, humans are physically feeble.

a chimp could belt mike tyson into a cowering foetal position.
if............ (i can not think of a famous runner's name) sprinted at his full famous speed, he could not catch a dog or a cat or almost any animal that wanted to escape him.
he also could not escape from almost any animal that wanted to predate on him, yet there are sometimes 100,000 spectators all deliriously cheering at his performance.

i do not care how good any human is at any sport they play.
it is not me that is playing it so i have no interest, and the fact that someone else has practised it is not a point of interest that i may focus upon.

i was forced by teachers to play some cricket once in year 5 (i was about 9 then).
i was not on the team that was batting, and the team i was "in" was supposed to catch the red ball and throw it at the 3 sticks hammered into the ground at either end of the running path.

a ball was batted my way, and i could easily see how to catch it, but i suddenly wondered why i should catch it, so i did nothing and it then hit the ground beside me and i walked off the field because i was bored with it.

i was never interested in sports or teams.

I found team sports uninteresting and unfathomable; I never did grasp the rules. I was/am, however, very good at climbing, balancing, dodging, swimming underwater, and being flexible.

I played basketball for 5 years and had a career total of 14 points! The last one was a three and we won by one, even though we spent the last 30 seconds of the game burning time...

I was however very good at marching band and indoor drumline. I'm currently auditioning for an independent world drumline (don't know if anybody on here knows what that means).

I am fairly good at all sports. Except running, I can sprint really well, but to me running without point is rather boring. I dont even get to tired, it just bores me.
Rugby, basketball, futbol, american football, baseball, kickball, dodgeball, volleyball, tennis, badmington, weights, crunches, pushups, I am up for all of it I guess.
I am not incredibly good at any, though probably best at futbol and dodgeball.
I am competitive, and I love having fun too. =)

Something strange though: My hand eye foot whatever coordination is exceptional. But I am also remarkably clumsy as well. Is that even possible? XD

Thanks to everyone who has voted and or posted so far.

The polling numbers are quite interesting, with those who actually enjoy sports in a small minority.

I am part of that minority and I think that my long distance running as a teenager was probably the main (if not only) reason that I survived adolescence.

My running would have certainly qualifed as:

Intense focus
Repetitive/rote (I ALWAYS ran the same routes)
Special interest (I had books on nutrition, training....)
Meeting my need for solitude


I guess my running (style) might have been a kind of stimming!

Running was my best friend and lonliness was my constant companion.

I always su**ed at sports.
However, I didn't hate them all. In elementary school I liked a ball game kind of similar to baseball, called "døball", that I liked. I was lousy at it but I still liked the game. At times I liked football/soccer. I also liked what we called one-man dodge ball.
In gym in jr high we sometimes played something that was supposed to be bandy, but as soon as the teachers turned around, turned into bandy/fencing/wrestling/chaos. It was violent but fun!
I never liked other ball games (and especially not volley ball) nor other sports like track sports and orienteering. I'm at least just as bad at these as I am at ball games. I miss the ball, trip over obstacles, can't read map or fing my way in orienteeering and my jumps were a joke. Let's not get into gymnastics.

The worse part is that I liked some of games, especially døball, but no-one else could just play it for fun. They had to win. I was never competitive and I wished that someone would like to play just to have fun.

oh don't get me started! I was always the slowest runner in my class, and any team I was on was assured to lose because of me

I had great difficulty running until I was about 13.

The reason is that I would get completely out of breath after running just 10 yards.

Doctor's couldn't find any reason for this so I figured I would do something about it.

I took my Christmas tips from my newspaper round and bought some Nike running shoes (this was back in the 70s and the soles were slightly thicker than a credit card)

I picked a 3 mile route. It hurt like hell, I thought I was going to blow a lung out when I got the hilly section (which I walked up).

Everything hurt, mostly my throat..........I know you all know that feeling.

I went back the next day and did it again and again and again and again............

By the time I was 17, I was running 3 miles in 14 minutes and the other guys at the rowing club called me Henry Rono.

(You will have go be over 40 to understand that one, (unless your special interest is athletics statistics)

I never competed cos I didn't like the idea of not winning.

I kept up my running well into my early 40's until the all my road running caught up with me, so now I cycle.

Running was my best friend.

I hate team sports, due to the constant screaming and jeering of team mates, and my total disinterest in foot ball ect. But I love climbing, and am quite fond of in-line skating and ice skating (not great at either though)

No I am not good at Sports.

I absolutely hate the team sports like football and baseball. I suck at playing them (and the only time I ever played them was when forced to in gym class) and I hate watching them even more. I do like some things like fencing and snowboarding though.