Quotes About Athletes

We do a lot of great things, but it's a competitive league. A lot of great guys around us do the work and help us elevate our game, and that's what makes the NFL so special. We have a lot of competitive players who are the best in the world at what they do, and they all compete against each other.

Ballet dancers are among the greatest living athletes.

I'm a basketball fan, I'm a fan of greatness and I think anybody who knows anything about basketball knows great shooters.

I wanted to be amongst the greats. I wanted to be a Simone Biles, a Michael Phelps, an Ashton Eaton. I wanted to be those guys.

Every striker from England I know is the same; they're greedy and they want to get goals.

Watch out for guys like Scott Piercy and Danny Willett. They both play really good on fast, fast greens.

I think a lot of times with football players, we're just head down, grinding away, maybe not enjoying it as much as we should.

I remember being a little kid walking down the grocery aisle seeing athletes on these cereal boxes.

Any sport where people earn a lot of money you are going to get groupies.

Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'

There's not a lot of guys in this league who are tough for me to guard. It's a short list.

I just love playing with point guards with high Iqs.

Little Slater Martin, I think, was one of the best point guards ever, and we had Whitey Skoog, a great shooter, at the other guard.

There are a lot of great point guards in the NBA.

Athletes are people too, we go through a lot of things, but it all became easier when there was someone who could guide and counsel.

Jessie Vargas is not as good as those guys I lost to.

Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.

Maybe when I'm done fighting, I'll open a gym and manage fighters and train fighters.

Some guys are gym fighters, some guys are better in the ring.

I think we sometimes think, 'it is just preseason. These games are for the fans mostly.' It's for ourselves to get in shape and play against more competition. Let's face it, this is preseason, but you can develop bad habits during preseason.

I would never go to a cinema hall to watch a biopic on a cricketer. I am not a big fan of people making biopics on sportsmen, especially cricketers. I think there are far bigger people who have done much more for the country, and films should be made on them.

Kobe Bryant is better than Michael Jordan. Not more successful. Hasn't had a bigger economic impact. Hasn't won more MVPs. Hasn't won more titles. But he's a better player.

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.

The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up.