Quotes About Sports

I had been pulling my groins in college a lot and missed my whole freshman year of college because of groin pulls. It was chronic, and I couldn't figure it out. I went to the doctor, and he told me I had hip dysplasia. So I knew my hockey days were sorta limited at that point.

The game has changed since the '80s, where you could punch and kick and headlock and do one suplex, and that's a 25 minute match.

Sometimes in this game, you get punched in the face. And you've got to be able to take it and learn from it.

I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.

I've seen some folks with Olympic backgrounds go into combat sports and it just not being for them. You know, doing Judo or something else you might excel, but as soon as a punches are flying, they're out.

What kind of pupil was I? Well, I was a swot, but I was allowed to be without any ill effects by my contemporaries because I was excused from games due to my asthma. So being a swot was something to compensate for not being to play football.

The IPL is just pure, intense. You don't need all the other stuff. I don't believe in coaches in international cricket.

I still bleed purple and gold, so it was a no-brainer for me to go to LSU.

My favorite piece of clothing as a boy was a purple Magic Johnson jersey from the Los Angeles Lakers.

Basketball was always my sport. It just took me until my second year of college for me to realize that I was a better baseball player than a basketball player. But basketball was always my number one love. Finally found out I was better at baseball and chose to pursue that route.

In the pursuit of a championship and beyond, I'm determined to take my performance, on and off the field, to the next level. I'm confident that MET-Rx and their great lineup of sports nutrition products is the perfect partner to help me do just that.

When push comes to shove, baseball is one of my favorite things in the world.

My brother one time after a little league basketball game, I think he messed up or something had happened in the game, ends up getting in an argument with my dad. Ultimately he gets pushed down and he ends up cutting the back of his head. He had six or seven stitches over a 10-year-old basketball game. That was tough to watch.

I'd like to see a show about what happens to young sports stars who've been pushed too hard by their parents or coaches.

My parents knew there was no point in pushing the football thing. I hated the boots.

Here I am just trying to fund myself to play a sport, but the greater picture is that I'm a female athlete really pushing the envelope for women in sports.

It's in all of our interests to keep pushing athletes to see the big picture, and that's sometimes very difficult.

I would be honest when I say that the adventure element in my life was introduced by Abhinav. He really enjoys pushing his limits when it comes to adventure sports.

Ohio State University puts out some very fine football players.

People watch TV and think a two-foot putt is the greatest thing in the world when a guy knocks it in. But nobody is rushing you. You don't have a center, you don't have a holder. You don't have 100,000 people screaming at you.

I'd like to see something done about the long putters and belly putters. But I go back and forth on that. I've actually worked with a belly putter.

If you're fixing a game, you're making calls up against star players to get that star player to the bench so that team is at a major disadvantage.

When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.

Back in the States, women play flag football, but they have the same opportunities as the guys do.