“Through sport you learn self discipline, work hard on a target, on a goal you want to reach and that also helps for your career or for your work.”

“Our players love playing basketball, but they also love travel so this is an opportunity to marry those things together.”

“You watch the Olympics and people are in awe of performance. You watch an event like this, you know the 40, 50, 60 year old age group, hopefully it inspires people to get out of the arm chair and say: ‘Actually, I could do that!”