Quotes About Athletes

Injuries are a part and parcel of a player's career.

The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.

Maradona has been the best player in history and for me, Messi is even greater than he is.

It's very important, when you talk about a player like an Aaron Donald, 'Hey, here comes Ndamukong. How do you feel about a player like that?'

LeBron James is one of the best players in the league - and one of the best players to ever play the game.

They are among the three best in the world: Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Neymar are the three best players in the world and I'm happy I have one of them playing alongside me.

Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.

All good players are interesting.

I watch a lot of badminton, and as a result, I know more or less about the forms of most of the players.

Intuition is what makes the best players.

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.

To have the opportunity to play for the best club in the world gives you the opportunity to play against the best players in the world.

I am a big NBA fan, where a lot of players play on physicality.

Players don't usually like anybody who makes more money than they do.

Maradona is among the best five players I've ever seen: Garrincha, Pele, Diego, Cruijff and Beckenbauer.

What captains want is players who move well in the field.

Players are sometimes sad, sometimes happy during their sporting career.

Will it make the game safer for people by moving the extra point back to a 43-yarder? If anything, players are going to rush harder because they're thinking, 'That far of a field goal-type try, we have to go after blocking it more.'

Everyone is on a fair playing field. It's safer for athletes, it's safer for the fighters - it's just a safer thing for fighters. So I think the USADA thing is good.

I'm all for players extending their careers, and I'm all for trying to be as healthy as possible for the playoff run.

The NBA playoffs have the highest ceiling in all of sports.

Being rested and playing bad is not going to be a good formula going into the playoffs. That's not good.

You know, the thing about the great receivers? They won. They were in the playoffs. They were making big plays.

Understand that nutrition plays a huge role in athletes' lives, and one of the most nutritious ways to eat is to cook your own food.