Quotes About Challenge

In what other sport do you get a 15-second break every hour?

I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.

Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks.

The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.

I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!

Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And I discovered instead... that I'd finally found my sport.

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running.

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.

I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.

People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.

The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long.

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading.

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

When someone like Brian Oldfield can beat me, I will retire.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows.

The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.

It's not too far; it just seems like it is.

I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.

Playing hockey, there were a lot of guys bigger than me, so I knew I was going to get hit and have to deal with it. Gotta hit back.