Quotes About Athletes

One of the greatest matches I ever saw was Jerry Lawler against Terry Funk in the Memphis Midsouth Coliseum, but there was Flair vs. Steamboat in Nashville back in '89.

We're tested eight, nine times a year - blood tested, urine tested, so I mean, if people think I'm doing something, tell them to increase the testing.

I mean, does anyone seriously think there are no drugs in Olympic sports just because they do some kind of testing? They are highly competitive sports with highly competitive people and just with competitive business people do whatever they can do to get ahead.

You know, in pressure games everyone tests your skills on and off the field.

I think most girls would say they'd love to play more Tests if it was possible.

My Jamaican symmetry project is twenty years old, and we have now shown that knee symmetry is a key variable in sprinting success; we can use it to predict sprinting success fourteen years into the future, and also to predict which of Jamaica's elite sprinters are the very best.

Anything that you want to write about you can write about in sports.

Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes.

I definitely think that myself and Sam will help the Timberwolves.

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.

Rodeoing is about the only sport you can't fix. You'd have to talk to the bulls and horses, and they wouldn't understand you.

Professional competitions are overrated.

Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.

In sport, Americans are prominent in the Premier League - both on and off the pitch.

It's just about being in the zone, in any sport, be it football, basketball or baseball.

You must allow your players to become the athletes they can be. Don't make them into anything just to become the kind of winners fans, friends and others think they must be.

It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.

Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.

I try to help my athletes visualize their full potential, and then get out of the way as they achieve it.

It's not only hockey, it's every sport. You know, it's a big event.

Cycling is a sport of amazing athletes. Its been a privilege and a honor for me to be in this sport and to have a chance to race at the highest level.

Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.