Quotes About Athletes

Certain athletes show themselves as marketable, and the UFC gets behind them; they help push them. I'm a husband, a father of four, a gym owner, an actor, an analyst, a stuntman, a Christian - every avenue you can take it, I have those layers.

It is a business. I know we, as athletes and owners and people involved with the NBA, never want to say that it's a business and things like that. It is a business.

Whenever you get Brianna Decker on the ice, and Emily Field and Amanda Pelkey, people are just going to go fast and push the pace.

At United, we like to have wingers who give the team width and pace.

Clearly, NXT has been blessed with amazing, one-of-a-kind athletes. Our talent have great figures, they're charismatic and beautiful in their own way. However, I am the total package.

Football is not played in shorts and it's not fair to the big guys. So many guys look bad in shorts and then they put the pads on and they're football players.

I disagree that an athlete can't be intelligent. Some people think that, in basketball, we have a bunch of masculine adults who don't know how to control themselves. They're feeble-minded and can't engage or articulate ideas. That's a narrative they keep trying to paint.

I just think it's really great to see athletes painted in a picture that you don't usually get to see us in.

You know the secret to dunking a ball? Big hands. You've got to be able to palm it, and I couldn't.

Everybody at the Olympics are almost at level par.

David Tua was an elite and world class heavyweight, I believe David Tua would have knocked Joseph Parker out in a handful of rounds.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.

As players we know pressure is part and parcel of what we do.

A lot of people in MMA do part-time jobs.

I've always been partial to good players. If someone is a good player I'm interested.

I think City is a really good example of how you shift the culture internally. We've had a big culture shift, particularly in the academy. Young boys are now more comfortable with strong female athletes being around.

I am excited to partner with Under Armour to bring game-changing sleepwear, with the same bioceramics technology I use, to athletes all around the world.

I'm much more starstruck by athletes than I am by actors, and I think I saw Kobe Bryant at a basketball party, and I just kind of froze. He's monstrous.

I feel like professional athletes are the ones that deserve to be tired. I'm just partying, and there's definitely physical exertion involved in that, but it also fuels you as you go.

Normally, midfielders only pass the ball, but I dribble as well.

English footballers are honest - they will run for 90-odd minutes - but that is not always what you need. Sometimes you need to rein back a bit and try and control the game with your passing.

That's what Europe brought to the NBA: the passing skills, the shooting skills.

Anytime you've got a good running back, it will help your passing game.

Coutinho is a friend and also a great player. He's got incredible passing ability; he knows how to put attackers in on goal.