Quotes About Athletes

When you're at world championship level, you're fighting other guys who are at a world championship level.

There's some great, great players that have played this game, in all sports, that haven't won a championship.

I fought Culcay as an amateur in the 2007 world championships, so we have some history together in the ring.

For some, sport is just a short chapter of their lives so I am excited to help athletes develop many life skills that they can take with them on their next chapter.

We can find athletes. The biggest challenge is personality. It's finding charisma. In most sports, they tell you to turn down the personality. Look like everyone else on the team. It's the team; it's not you. In this, it's the opposite. It's you, not the team. We want you to become the big star.

Without the hand check rule, players are more likely to work their way open.

Athletes have the same rights everybody else does. If there is a strength in our democracy, it's that we are encouraged to exercise those rights and speak out and hold people in power in check.

Cheer the players. They are ones getting it done. They are ones blocking shots, making saves and scoring goals.

I have friends who play for Chelsea, Liverpool, and Manchester United.

Chelsea have fantastic players.

Don't be scared to look for help. Depression is real... It's crazy, and all these guys, us athletes, that keep thinking we're superheroes. I like to think I'm a superhero, but superheroes got to fight their demons, too, sometimes.

As athletes, it is our responsibility to be role models. But we are not superheroes.

GGG is a great fighter, but he hasn't got the ability that Kell has - Brook is the far superior boxer.

Speaking on all of it in general, I think we, as MMA fighters, should be getting paid just as well as the NBA players, the NFL players and Major League Baseball, hockey as well, I'm not trying to skip any sport as I don't think any sport is superior to the other.

It's a league where guys are trying to play to the best of their ability, whether you're a superstar or trying to make the NBA.

I cannot say who is better between Messi and Ronaldo. Because they are different players. Both are superstars.

I think the key to winning a championship is get superstars who are great players.

Baseball needs more superstars.

The Royal Rumble is very difficult because, obviously, there are 30 people, and there are many superstars in it.

I love superstars.

People like Ellie Simmonds, David Weir, and Hannah Cockroft have become superstars alongside the likes of Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis. I think it has changed attitudes to disability.

I think sometimes fans or people kind of get confused. They think these athletes or superstars aren't human, but they are.

When superstars play it is easier to guide them during a match because they don't need much guidance; they already know how to cope with high-pressure situations.

All sportsmen have superstitions, or at least they have routines. You look at Rafa Nadal and the way he organises his water bottles. Me, I always put my left pad and left shoe on first.