Quotes About Athletes

You're starting to see more and more athletes recognizing their reach and how much leverage and power that they have in their celebrity and in their platform. And more and more guys are trying to use that leverage to better their communities, to better this country and are speaking out on injustice.

Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.

As part of their recovery after a match, you want players to stay in the cold water for as long as they can, but naturally, they want to get out. You might have races or games in order to keep them engaged.

Sometimes I go to the pool. With the pool, sometimes it's for recovery. I go with Joakim Noah because he's a big pool guy.

We try to recruit good players and good people.

I never thought that shoes would be the reason that you recruit players, but it's a factor. I think we need to get the shoe companies out of the lives of the athletes. I think we need to get it back to where parents and coaches have more of a say than peripheral people, but that's easier said than done.

Duke recruits the best basketball players. They don't recruit dunkers or highlight makers. They recruit good basketball players.

I think proximity in recruiting matters the most.

A lot of kids, especially football players, had been using Twitter for recruiting.

Recruiting is tough because you have to stay in the battle. You've got so many guys that are going after a certain amount of kids.

Recruiting is always a snow-ball effect because when you get really good players and they like it, the other players want to play with them.

The phrase 'NFL combine' always sounds redundant, because the league is a combine harvester, reaping and threshing everything in its path.

I would like to see more pictures of what athletes are doing, like in People. Show athletes hanging out with each other, eating lunch, out on a date.

Guys get concussions, they don't tell the coaches. It happens.

Bony is probably physically stronger than Kane but I think Harry Kane comes a little bit deeper to pick up the ball some times.

Those are the ones you look forward to: going against a great, talented player, someone who's going to be in this league for a long time, who you're going to be seeing for a long time. Get a chance to go out, compete, and just have fun. Those are the fun match-ups.

I mean, our job is - we're baseball players, we have to go to work. But when it all boils down, we're just a bunch of kids out there having fun trying to entertain people.

It is great to play with a player like Eden Hazard. He is one of the best in the world, and I am very lucky to play with him.

In football, there are so many great football players like Eden Hazard, Roberto Lewandowski and Neymar.

Those athletes are not going to wear my headphones because I asked them.

I think everyone has knockout power. I mean, it's the heavyweight division.

Would I take Conor McGregor? No, he's a lot shorter than me. I don't think we'd be allowed fight - a heavyweight and a lightweight.

I think with every heavyweight, there's a style that makes for a different fight with different fighters.

I can't think of any heavyweights that would match up well with me. They're all too big.