Quotes About Athletes

I've already played against some of my biggest idols.

I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.

I have played with important people, important players like Ibrahimovic.

I started Athletes vs Cancer as a way to honor my mother, but now giving back has become a part of who I am, and more importantly, this is a key value I hope to pass on to my own sons.

David Beckham has never impressed me.

I look at the athletes who have come before me and been so impressed with what they have done and been inspired by what they have done, but I've never really looked at the stats of medal counts.

In the English league, there are great players everywhere. It's impressive.

I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.

Middleweight is the best division in the UFC, in MMA in my opinion.

I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.

I want to create as many opportunities as possible for people inclined towards sports.

My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the life of a footballer, and I guess that is true across most sports now.

As Leslie began to fill in the picture, adding images and details to the flat sentences in the police reports, she was also bringing something more: her personality and the limits of her understanding. She has always wanted to be liked, especially by the popular athletes, and what happened in the basement hadn't changed that.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.

That's our starting five: '86 Bird, '03 Duncan, '85 Magic, '92 Jordan and '77 Kareem. You cannot assemble a better five-man unit of modern guys.

So here's the final Wine Cellar Team: '77 Kareem, '03 Duncan, '86 Bird, '92 Jordan, '85 Magic (starters); '86 McHale, '92 Pippen, '09 Wade, '77 Walton, '10 LeBron, '09 Paul, '01 Allen (bench).

We always hear about the lack of support for superstars like KG or Oscar, but jeez, the Rockets baked Hakeem a shit soufflé of teammates for six solid years (1987–1993).

The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

I could remember thinking when I met him, 'Wow, that's Andy Sanders from Houston. He's really good.' And he tells me he said, 'Wow, that's Jimmy Walker. He hits it really far.'

We wreck a few times a year, we're not getting hit in the head as much as football players, but concussions still happen in our form of racing.

Curt Hennig was one of best guys I ever wrestled. If I could've come back and wrestled one last match, I wish I could've wrestled Curt. He was my favorite guy to wrestle.

Terry Funk. Any time I got to wrestle with him, it was cool. Superstar Billy Graham was another one.