Quotes About Challenge

Our sports are totally different, if Lance Armstrong himself were to come and train with us he'd be completely exhausted after half and hour.

Extreme sport has only ever been about goals and the ways to achieve these goals. Adrenaline plays a part, but it's never in the foreground.

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.

Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.

The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.

The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.

That's one of the magical things about the Olympics, Team GB will have someone challenging in a sport that we've never watched and all of a sudden it'll be the biggest thing ever.

I did my first triathlon when I was 11-years-old and it was just another new sport to try. I got better at it and decided to take it a bit more seriously.

I love pushing my body to the limit & seeing how far I can take it before it breaks.

If the lion didn't bite the tamer every once in a while, it wouldn't be exciting.

Fear is part of the process. If you weren't scared, you'd be in trouble.

As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.

When asked about which team is the toughest team in the league, responded with an answer that all volleyball players must comprehend. He said simply that it was, 'The team you are playing.'

I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.

Gimme: An agreement between two losers who can't putt.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.

Pain is nothing. Pain is in the mind. If you can walk you can run.

This is normal, to have pressure. It's how you respond. Take the pressure, use the pressure, have fun.

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

It must be wonderful sport to contradict each other.

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.