Quotes About Athletes

I drink a lot of Body Armor - it's a sports drink. It offers great hydration, and it's the best before/after drink for workouts. Orange mango is my favorite. Strawberry banana is a close second.

There's nothing like a shake-up when you are on the street just training and everybody in the league is with their team engaged in offseason workouts.

As athletes, the biggest asset that we bring to the workplace is our work ethic, our confidence, our never-say-die attitude. We're about winning.

Brazil is well served for goalkeepers, many who have not been to the World Cup are very good.

Not many players played in a World Cup and Champions League final.

I got to be around an England team at a World Cup in Brazil, and that was an amazing experience.

I'm aware that the World Cup is probably the greatest spectacle in the world of sport, and that's despite the referees that have been found to have fixed games specifically.

The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.

Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

At the most elite level, your nutrition becomes a lifestyle: it's not something you have to do when you're preparing for Olympic games or World Cup games - you just do it. You're more inclined to eat healthier because it's better for your muscles.

England is a team that is used to playing in World Cup finals.

Of all the players at the World Cup I don't think it is too much to compare Ronaldinho with the great Pele.

In the World Cup, people of many nations come together for a fierce competition. To field the best team, all the competitor nations know that they need to train their athletes for many years, starting as early as the first moments a child can recognize a soccer ball. No shortcuts. No late starts.

The beauty of the World Cup is that while thirty-two countries get to cheer for their respective teams, the event also affirms a global pluralism - it is as much a festival of cultural multiplicity as it is a competition featuring some of the best athletes in the world.

If you can't play under pressure, you shouldn't be at a World Cup.

At the World Cup, it's the very top level. It's going to be tougher.

For everyone, the World Cup is important. It doesn't matter if you are 21, going for your first one, or 35 and going for your third one. It's the biggest stage you can play on, and every opportunity to experience it is something special.

It's the World Cup, and everyone wants to be there. No one will be burnt out; everyone will be raring to go.

For the players, these top, top, top games or these top, top, top events - like a World Cup or a European Championship - are not common but, of course, something special.

When you go to a World Cup, in midfield you need to have players who can score from distance, who can get in the box and obviously play-make.

Since the World Cup in 2015, we've all experienced an increase in the interest in women's football, which has led to more and more fans supporting the team.

I've never been a massive advocate of international Twenty20 cricket except a World Cup every two or three years, because that gets the best players together.

You need superhuman performances at the World Cup.

The greatest challenge of a World Cup is having mental fortitude. The pressure is immense.