Quotes About Athletes

The Masters isn't about Jim Nantz and his storytelling. It's about golf's greatest tournament.

The Asian Cup is an important tournament.

It is never easy to play with Roger, Rafa and Novak in the middle of the tournament because they've had matches and are fresh.

Playing in a big tournament is one of the biggest things for a professional footballer.

If you look at the players, they need more of a break. Some players only get as little as three weeks after a major tournament and it's straight back to the grind.

I'm not interested at all in playing more than 12, 15 tournaments a year on an annual basis because like all the old guys out here on this Tour, we've played golf for nearly 30 years of our lives.

In general, I enjoy watching different sport tournaments and competitions.

Some tournaments are played in one day - you might start at nine o'clock in the morning and it won't end till one o'clock the next morning.

You look at the guys who are winning tournaments , Ronnie, Ding, Mark Selby, Marco Fu - none of them are overweight, they are the slimmer guys on tour.

Grand Slams are four tournaments a year, so of course those are the big ones, those are the ones that people and us players want to do our best at. It's just high level quality of tennis.

Something that needs to be better is making sure our athletes have the right insurance claims and are protected when we're going into major tournaments and representing our countries.

We'd like to encourage more regional and national tournaments for our paralympians so they can regularly compete and hone their skills.

I like 'Stifle Tower,' I like 'Gobzilla.' There's a lot of nicknames that are pretty cool.

I've learned what F1 is like, and it is an extremely competitive sport on and off the track.

Last time I was starstruck was when I met Roger Federer. He is one of the few athletes that I really look up to - incredibly talented both on and off the track and a great role model for tennis.

In track years... track is not like other sports. You do have track athletes that stay in this sport until, like, 35, 36, but I think when you get to 28, it's really difficult.

For most of the track world, the Olympic year is such a huge year, and it's a big year for us marathoners too.

All our lives are enriched by the leadership and excellence and confidence of female athletes, whether the Mia Hamms and Maya Moores we know or the field hockey, lacrosse and track and field athletes we do not necessarily know.

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

It is great to see our young athletes get an opportunity to run on excellent tracks at the Medical College Stadium. And I am happy to see spectators coming in large numbers to cheer our young champions. That is something you would not see in many parts of Kerala.

Cuban athletes represent the most expensive human cargo on earth. They are sitting on over a billion dollars of human capital if these boxers and baseball players would come over to any other field or ring in the world and begin to ply their trade.

A lot of guys are missing teeth and don't get them fixed until they're done. I think that's pretty much the hockey trademark... guys figure, well, we're going to lose our teeth anyway, so we'll get them fixed when we're done.

Shaun White and Danny Kass were obsessed with trading Olympic pins. I bet they can say 'pin' in every language.

Baltimore was like a small town when I got there - the Colts, the Orioles, guys like Frank Robinson, we all knew and respected each other. Everyone would cross paths at one point at Lenny Moore's Sportsman's Lounge, trading stories and having some fun.