Quotes About Athletes

There's no way to practice or run or do anything to match the speed of the game.

Later in life, when I'm retired and have a family of my own and will be able to send my kids to college, that's when I'll start spending. Way too many athletes go broke these days, and I like saving my money so that I can ensure my family and friends currently and after me will never have to endure some of the things I did when I was a kid.

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car. You are baby-sitting rich, spoiled kids... I don't know where you parked your car!

While professional basketball, football, and baseball players make millions and their salaries represent well over 50% of the billions generated by those sports, the spoils of boxing don't often make it to the boxers.

Anybody I have spoken to who has held a record says 'Records are meant to be broken.' They get excited when somebody has an opportunity to break one of their records and take the sport even further.

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

I'd probably start charging for medical timeouts. I think we'd all see who really uses them and who doesn't.

Big wave surfers are human beings that have powers. They are men of enormous gentility.

Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won't do it unless my coaches tell me I've just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.

Cyclists are insane. You're going through the Alps, climbing up mountains. There's this circus around them. They're so tough. When they have a day off, they go out and cycle 100 miles.

I'm a fan of many fighters but as soon as they start looking at me, the fighter in me comes out and I'm like, 'You better watch your damn mouth.'

You'll always have people saying 'these guys look good' but there's a difference in what we're looking for. We want our fighters to look like fighters, sure, but the moves still have to look good.

A lot of these defensive linemen, they're real whirling dervishes - they do all these fancy moves.

The Indonesian brands aren't interested in sports people, only movie stars, because they can get more exposure in the media.

Shaq and Muhammad Ali's my favorite two athletes of all time.

I personally don't think guys should get multiple chances when guys fail a steroid test.

There are athletes out there trying to get every advantage they can, including things like muscle and low-fat percentages. I feel if I'm the better fighter, I'm the better fighter.

I think that's one thing about the entertainment industry: Athletes want to be actors, and musicians want to be actors, so it all kind of mixes nice together.

There's a fiercely competitive rivalry between myself and Virat Kohli - but also enormous mutual respect.

I love playing against my friend D-Rose.

However controversial Mayweather may be, he doesn't bring down the name of boxing. The fast cars, the jets and the money causes controversy but that does not bring the game down.

I respect all the fighters who have the big names.

The sad thing is that I know no athletes' names. I am not a sports girl at all.

When you ask people about guys they didn't like because they were aggressive, there's me, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors; not too many names would come up.