Quotes About Athletics

I'm not going to get tired in a 12 round boxing event, especially if I have time to prepare for it.

It doesn't take a lot of preparation for the Rumble compared to how you would prepare for a match where it's you and another guy.

I've done a lot of basketball drills, not a whole lot of competitive stuff. I have basically been in the gym everyday working on my game, working on the time off that I've had from the game, just getting myself prepared mentally and physically for the season.

I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. You need to stay alert all the time, and a lapse of concentration, even for a second, will let you down.

Everyone is getting prepared for this, to win the gold medal. I am among them: I want to win the medal.

As long as I still feel a passion for the sport and preparing for these big competitions, I will carry on fighting.

I do not miss the hours you have to spend preparing for the upcoming season in July, in March, April. I do not miss half my day being in the gym... to get ready to play.

I think my presence is better felt on the ice.

As we formulate big four matches, there should definitely be a lucha presence involved.

I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.

I started with the Oakland A's back in 1971 and there was press at every game and there were cameras on me when I was that young. So with 20 years being MC Hammer, I'm comfortable with cameras so when the camera goes on, I continue doing what I'm doing.

I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.

In my first press conference I said, 'I'm here to win.' If you don't think that way, or any player thinks that way, why are you playing the game?

I do a lot of squats, I do a lot of bench pressing. But legs are very important for me. It's more important than arms and shoulders.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it's a completely different ball game.

I think, to a certain extent, there is a pressure, although I don't think I've felt the pressure at Lyon more than I've felt at any other club I've played at.

There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.

When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.

I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity, but not like, 'I absolutely have to medal.'

To portray not only a boxer but a boxer like Roberto Duran, I needed to understand all the difficulties and the pressures of the sport itself.

When I came into the NFL, there were three things that were very important to me: money, power and prestige. I was powerful now because I was a famous athlete. I had prestige because I was doing what everybody wanted to do. And I had a lot of money.

It's fun to be able to dress up from time to time and pretend that I don't wear cleats, a T-shirt, and shorts every day.

The thing is this sport doesn't have a heavyweight who is prettier than I am and can get down.