Quotes About Athletes

We're prizefighters. That's what we become. Boxing has one of the biggest purses in sport. And in the sporting field, we probably make the most money.

In boxing, there's no more secrets today. Technology is such that you know everything about everyone.

As far as MMA, I want to say there's maybe five guys that do jiu-jitsu that have an actual level of understanding when it comes to boxing.

U.S.A. and the NBA are two different brands of basketball.

To be playing against people like Xavi and Iniesta is brilliant.

It seems, whenever there are two Brits fighting in the UFC, we always seem to put on a good fight.

We talk about players going broke, but we don't talk about why that is happening.

I'm a boxing fan. I've seen Kell Brook fight. I'm not one of those boxers who says he doesn't watch other guys fight or follow the sport. I do.

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

Durant has developed a LeBron Complex, sounding like he wants to be his best buddy LeBron as well as beat him.

My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports.

Athletes can be a very stressy bunch. We like routine. I'm a very routined person. If something changes, I really don't like it.

In the NHL, 95 percent of success is confidence.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

There have always been extraordinarily tough men in the business of sports-entertainment. My view is that one can't be in the sports-entertainment business successfully and long term without being tough.

Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

There's such a thing as retribution in sports.

As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.

Losing sucks. I don't care how much money you make or what stats you put up. If you're competitive enough to make it to the NBA, losing is absolutely brutal.

There are guys in the game only because of steroids. They couldn't make it with their natural talent, so they had to enhance themselves. It sucks.

You hear all the time about European players playing the game. These players that come over at 17, 18 and 19, they just don't all of a sudden become skilled. From the time they were little fellas, they learned the fundamentals of the game. Let them create.

You look at any roster and you say, 'Geez, he's pretty good. He's pretty good. He's talented. He comes off the bench?' All of a sudden, it's, 'Geez, that's a pretty good roster they got right there.'

Some players just have the natural stroke that you throw them in the lineup and all of the sudden they turn on a ball and hit it out of the ballpark.

I never slept very well when I was playing. Looking back, I was always suffering with depression and mental illness-type stuff I didn't understand.