Quotes About Athletics

One thing I struggle with is competing, being in a pack, running with a lot of bodies.

Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just comes with the package.

You have to give it to the Packers. They are a good team. They have a great offense and a great defense.

It's very hard for me to be myself when I'm not in shoulder pads.

The best players try to not slow down when they put the pads on.

Most of the hits I take come on top of the shoulder pads.

I try to be physical when I get pads on.

The first time I joined the gym was during the Miss Sri Lanka pageant in 2006. Then, I went for the Miss Universe contest where I was exposed to girls who were very fit for their age. They could have joined the Olympics. They were doing crazy exercises.

You look at the sports pages and you'd often be forgiven for thinking women didn't do sport.

I have the greatest job in the world. I get paid loads of cash for beating the crap out of people. And I'm very good at it.

I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

For me, triathlons were something that was down to me and my fitness. Now, I really enjoy the pain in the triathlon of chasing someone down. It's a bit like chasing down Nico Rosberg in the last few laps at Silverstone - it makes you feel alive.

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.

It's painful to see that after Independence, India hasn't won a single Olympic medal in athletics.

I go through a lot of painful things. There are sessions when I will be on my back afterwards, crawling.

I wish there was a season where I was playing and didn't have no aches, no pains, no bruises, no nothing.

I had aches and pains when I played. No player is ever 100 percent, 80 percent, 85 percent. Guys that play 158 or 162 or 145, we are all in the same boat.

I think mid-range shooters are hard to get to a lot of times. Guys are going at you all the way to the paint or looking to swat it at the 3-point line.

When I'm in the game, in the paint, I try to use my height and help the team.

To be able to run routes, that's like the greatest thing to me. It's kind of like an art to me. It's like a painter drawing or something like that. That's how I feel every time I run a route.

There's not a woman in this world that can beat me if we put on a pair of gloves and we fight. I've accomplished so much.

In running, the only equipment that really matters - at least the mentality was in those days - were the pair of shoes that you wore.

I do know if you lace up a pair of boots, Kurt Angle is someone you want to get in the ring with.