Quotes About Athletes

I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.

Athletes peak for the Olympic Games and can take months to get back up to that level.

Sometimes guys peak early. They get drafted higher, and they make it to the NFL, and they don't have a lot of growth.

I think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey.

I don't think there are many kids who sit around and want to be actors. I don't think there are many kids who want to sit around and want to be senators. But so many of us want to be athletes, so we're envious of them, and we put them up on that pedestal.

We as athletes want to be validated by your peers.

There's a lot of guys that I obviously admire. The Gary Paytons, me growing up in Seattle being able to watch him play. Even my peers now, the Patrick Beverleys and the Kawhi Leonards, I admire those guys.

I know that my peers around the NBA respect me and I have respect around the NBA.

It is easy to criticize me from behind a pen or a microphone, from someone who never set foot on a football field.

I think the four major leagues ought to set up a joint commission - say, of retired judges - to rule on athletes who are accused of doing bad things away from the game. Then each league would retain its independence in determining what penalties their players should get for infractions committed within the sport.

Sometimes you'll go up against keepers like Casillas - the 'penalty killer,' as many of us call him. Other times, there's that one defender that, for 90 minutes, just destroys you. There is one in particular who will always stand out in my mind. Nemanja Vidic.

It doesn't matter who it is. If I'm going to see an open gap, I'm going to penetrate and try to finish over those guys. I'm not afraid of big guys.

The NFL pension is the worst in the world of business. It's an embarrassment.

When people say that you kind of just get - you know, just feel like a little buzzed or dazed or had your bell rung - they consider that a concussion. I wouldn't. But if that is considered a concussion, I would say any football player at least records 50 to 100 in the course of a year.

Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.

Mental health is not a very easy thing to talk about in sports. It's not perceived as very masculine.

Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.

In this sport, the good thing about the UFC and MMA in general is a lot of it's based on perception.

People anyway didn't take me seriously because of the way I look. And for some reason, there's this Indian perception that sportspersons should look wanting, they should look like they've put up a real struggle.

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.

I feel pressure every day. It is only pressure that I put on myself, but I would expect all professional sportspeople to feel pressure to perform their best whenever they are at work.

Coping with injuries is always difficult for athletes because all we want to do is, basically, to have our best performances unhindered.

Almost all the great players I admire performed well deep into their 30s and their 40s, almost all of them, and I don't think I'm any different.

I loved all the wrestling going on in the ring - I wouldn't be into it as much if I didn't care about that - but I always had an infatuation with the performers and the entertainers.