Quotes About Athletes

You go to a couple of teams, and some guys have never been to a playoff game.

The league is crazy. It's hard to win in this league, and you have teams coming at you every week with players just as good as you.

When you have your star players that decide to use their platform, one, their platforms are bigger than everyone else's, and two, they're a force to be reckoned with because teams don't want to lose that talent. They're a force to be heard.

After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention.

If you give us soft greens and soft fairways, we're going to tear it apart.

The only way to get a three to four-month break would be to tear a tendon or a hamstring or something like that.

It's the one that the players fear. The No 1 is the ACL - the anterior cruciate ligament - closely followed by a real tear of the hamstring, because you know that's the one injury that kids you.

Yu Na Kim, Mao Asada, Carolina Kostner - all these girls can do triple-triples in their sleep, and they have the skating skills and the spins and the rest of the technical jumps. So I have to have that as well if I want to be able to call myself 'competitive' against them. And when I say 'competitive,' I mean I want to win.

I'd say that La Liga is slightly more technical than the Premier League.

We aren't showing off our muscles. We wear the tight-tailored jerseys for a technical reason. Defensive lineman are allowed to grab, so you don't want a lot of loose material.

We have the opportunity to make people feel something, feel some emotion, and then also we get to be just pure athletes, and from a pure technical standpoint do things are really technically demanding, and very challenging. So it's that balance between the two that we love. And we love to play with the limits and push ourselves.

I think there's sexiness in infield hits because they require technique.

Cristiano Ronaldo is big and strong, but Messi's technique is pure class.

Players who play in the Premiership play everywhere - they are strong, quick, and have good technique. It is the best football.

When I was younger, I used to watch Ohio State and Rutgers a lot. Definitely watching Ohio State and Jim Tressel and Troy Smith and Ted Ginn, definitely watched Rutgers with Ray Rice and Tiquan Underwood, all of those guys.

Considering the relatively brief careers of professional athletes, teenagers who are good enough to play at the highest level should be able to exploit that market.

If you look at the top 100 players, you would see that the great majority of them have had at least a couple of surgeries. That tells me that we have to protect the players.

When I watched the Premier League on the telly, I didn't expect it to be that hard. The opponents are all physically strong, real athletes. It wasn't like that in Germany. You must be prepared for it. But I prepared myself for it.

Reading for writers is like training for athletes.

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games

Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they're afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy.