Quotes About Athletes

The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy.

Anybody in the UFC has a chance to knock you out.

GGG is known for his knockouts. I knock out people, too, but I'm a better boxer than him.

The UFC is a very serious business, it's not the WWE. Guys break their arms and get knocked out in there.

I've seen so many fighters getting knocked out.

Guys like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, they'll take bad criticism in a good way.

The basketball great Kobe Bryant started his own venture-capital firm. LeBron James has rebranded himself as not just an athlete but also an investor and entrepreneur.

There are very few LeBron James and Kobe Bryants.

I feel like my game is more like LeBron's than Kobe's, so that's why I think I gravitated toward his game more.

At the end of the day, the only person to have a better Kobe sneaker game than me is Kobe himself.

I really enjoyed working with Rey Mysterio when we were up against Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit and The Guerreros.

I think La Liga is the best league in the world.

Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.

Michael Jordan calls fear an illusion. He and many other great athletes learn to turn fear into anger. You can run from fear, or you can get angry and attack it. If you challenged Jordan's pride he wouldn't be afraid. He used that energy to become more aggressive. Good athletes take fear of failure and turn it around.

Some athletes resist fear, or some try to deny fear. Others attempt to conquer it. Athletes should accept fear and recognize it as the body's way of telling them to become energized. Unmask your fears and face them down. Examine them. "Many times when fear starts to hit me, my best chance of overcoming it lies in facing it squarely and examining it rationally,

Most of the work I do is as a "stretch" and not a "shrink." I help athletes expand their comfort zone and encourage them to take risks.

Fear lives in the future. These athletes live in the present—the here and now. Their participation is fun and rewarding.

I help athletes expand their comfort zone and encourage them to take risks.

Mentally tough athletes possess an inner strength. They often play their best when they're feeling their worst. They don't make excuses.

Cus D'Amato, who trained Mike Tyson, said emotions, particularly anger, are like fire. They can cook your food and keep you warm, or they can burn your house down. Many great athletes use anger in a positive way. Anger motivates them. Anger steels their resolve. It is much better to become angry than to become afraid.

Less can be more. Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction. Athletes require rest and recovery time.

The most successful athletes are self-motivated. "The most important thing is to love your sport," said Peggy Fleming, the former Olympic figure-skating champion. "Never do it to please someone else—it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work needed to achieve success.

Pete Rose warned, "When you mess with my pride you're going to get into trouble." Michael Jordan is another prideful man. When challenged on the basketball court he exhibited what golfer Sam Snead called a "cool mad." In the playoffs, Jordan was always the smiling assassin.

I began a new career studying the psychology of stress and the psychology of success. My mission was to learn all I could about playing under pressure. I wanted to find out why, under pressure, some athletes break through, as Hamilton did, while others break down.