Quotes About Competition

I'm always down to fight a legend of the sport.

I hope I can make the decision to give up before my legs give up on me. I do not want to be embarrassing on the field and feel one day that I'm not at my best and players can beat me easily in duels.

Leo, Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar, Eden. Every year, you look at their numbers - score goals, assists, minutes - to see they play very well.

I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

Kids in sports - it makes such an impact in life with the lessons that you learn.

There are too many fights in our sport that are exciting, and you've got to let us fight.

The main aim of pre-season is to get ready for the competitive games and go into those in the best possible fashion on group and individual levels.

Once you start going out putting expectation levels on yourself, you lose the concept of trying to win the game.

You have to have brilliant people to work opposite, and then it does become like a real tennis match and this is our sport. With somebody like Mark Lewis Jones, who is extraordinary anyway, you just know it's going to be a good match.

People think sport is life and death - it's not.

Haystacks Calhoun has never been lifted because he has never been in the ring with Bruno Sammartino.

All the normal lifts that bodybuilders do, we didn't do them in basketball.

You can't take any team lightly.

I'm not taking him lightly at all. I mean, Heiland, he's a good fighter. He's strong. He comes to fight every time.

Big game, under the lights - these are the games you live for.

As soon as he hit it, I thought I had it. But I lost it when it went into the lights. I did my best.

I'll take any lightweight.

It is not that hard to go out there and put on the performance of your life and beat any guy in the lightweight division on any given night.

I'm not afraid to grapple with anybody in the lightweight division.

I'm a huge lightweight.

I'm gonna challenge Camacho, Rosario or anyone else who has the lightweight title.

I always liked serve-and-volley players and big athletes.

Drake took me to the limit in our ping-pong challenge.

In training, you can push yourself to the limit and test yourself against the best players in the world. That is when the pressure is really on, and they are the moments when you either improve, or you don't.