Quotes About Athletes

Some guys are real noble guys, like Rich Franklin or Randy Couture. These guys are just really good people who happen to fight.

Clemens and Maddux have defined our era, I believe. And Randy Johnson is right behind them and still going.

I love 'Macho Man' Randy Savage, Shawn Michaels and Eddie Guerrero.

We are football players and we like to win games.

All the top players in the world play 45-50-60 games. You need that many games, even the strikers need that many games.

The Champions League is a very special one, as everyone switches one gear up.

The general public don't like boxers. They prefer tennis players.

People get confused because we all make a lot of money and it seems crazy to the general public, but this is something that we all love to do. We play this game because we love it and if we didn't get paid for it, most of us probably would still be playing.

I've already beaten four to five generations of Bellator's best fighters.

In Germany, the football association is the best.

It would be fantastic to play against Germany and Brazil.

Here in Germany, we have emotional players, too.

When you compete with better athletes, you also get better.

The Australian players are getting better.

I faced Gibson many times and faced Sandy Koufax three times.

Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson were not giants, they were giants in the ring, they drew money, people loved them and that's what you find in the Young Bucks.

I think everything works in cycles. I was fortunate enough to come along in the golden age for big men. There were guys like Hakeem Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing.

The biggest thing is just routine. I think that's the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players.

I love Charles Barkley, he's a good friend of mine and he's a funny guy. He knows nothing about college basketball. Less than nothing.

I love Chuck Liddell. Chuck Liddell is a good friend of mine, actually.

I've fought a lot of good girls and I think Valentina is one level above any other.

I know Stipe, I trained with him a little bit. He's a good guy but I feel I match up with him well.

All my best players have been really good guys, which means I can coach them.

As a competitor, you want to pitch against the elite guys and really good guys.