Quotes About Athletes

It's a different animal when you're in the NBA. You come in this league and you've got 7-footers who play 7 foot who are going to protect that rim come hell or high water.

There are few players who play on their natural foot as a winger.

Dementia pugilistica was discovered in 1928... And we still have boxing. Football will continue.

Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.

But I look at Anquan Boldin the same. If you watch us, we're similar players. We're not the fastest, we're not the biggest, but we get it done. I think we're just football players.

Football players win football games.

As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.

Top-flight football players are a strange bunch.

I don't really like the business side of football, but I just like adding good players to our football team.

Footballers are super-intelligent and there is only one football language: to win, to win, to win.

I think medically, football is generally well looked after. There are always checks made. Anything which can be done to make footballers or sportsmen of any area safer has to be encouraged.

I always give my best on the field, but I think modern footballers have a big opportunity to make a difference in peoples' lives.

Guardiola likes footballers who can pass the ball, who have eyes for the best position and the right runs.

Arsenal is a team that needs good footballers and leaders on the field.

Just like footballers want to play at Wembley, the Nou Camp and the Bernabeu, boxers have their dream arenas too.

I think it's important that we try to showcase what we're about as women footballers.

There is such a strange microculture to footballers' fashion and style and the design that goes around it.

You see a lot of smaller-school guys go to the NFL and have success: Carson Wentz, Derek Carr for example.

We like to be kind of at the forefront for how all football federations should treat their female athletes.

When you talk about domestic violence, it's not just athletes that are involved in it. Our society has really done a poor job of addressing it. And it needs to come to the forefront.

A lot of guys who I fought, they beat guys who were No. 1 contenders, and that's why I fought them.

When I started, athletes fought for honor, respect, philosophy.

It's very hard for most players to be at the top in a four-year cycle.

I know the UFC's a big organization, the best athletes and fighters are here, so... every third or fourth month, I'm ready to fight.