Quotes About Athletics

I'm a competitor; I'm in here talking - come at me. If you score on me, I'm gonna tap you on your butt. You got the best of me - but you got to do it every time.

If I can make someone tap out with my ankle lock it would be Sasha Banks.

I got rid of one bat tap I used to have as I was about to face up, and getting rid of that's made me more stable and able to get in better positions and play, particularly fast bowling, a lot easier.

The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

When we're not on the practice field, I'm watching tape, and when I'm not watching tape, I'm doing body work or something like that.

If you ask somebody who played basketball against me in the first grade and you watch a tape, it's been with me since I was a kid. I've always had this mentality to go out there and defend.

I'll watch a highlight tape of my kicks and I'll play a song that I like the night before the game and then I'll sing that song in my head to visually get myself ready and have positive thoughts.

My target is to score in every match here at the 2012 Olympics. I am hoping to land on target with my penalty corner shots at crucial moments.

I love to play three-quarter iron shots. They take a lot of extra movement out of the swing, which increases my chance of hitting it solid with the face square to the target.

A lot of golfers take the club back with almost no upper-body rotation - they're all arms. And even when they do rotate back, it's usually on a flat shoulder plane. If your shoulders turn back fairly level with the ground, it's hard to swing down from inside the target line and hit an accurate shot.

I can hit any target on the field.

Olympics is the ultimate target and I could not do well in the 2016 Games.

Sometimes I feel like the easiest target in sports.

If Leander Paes can be playing in Grand Slams at 44 and Narain Karthikeyan race at 40 and be so successful at it, I see no reason why I can't play at 34. They are my motivation, as they have set targets and standards for people like us to achieve.

I train hard, but having a fight on the cards so often gives me targets and focus.

You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.

When you're in between the white lines, the game face is on. I was only focused on the task at hand - out, safe, ball, strike - leaving little time to think about how special a player, moment or game happened to be.

The Olympic Rings tattoo has played its part and will continue to motivate me.

It's hard to get a tattoo and give it the time that it needs to heal in between trying to get ready for fights and train. I would probably have more if I wasn't having to roll around and train all the time.

To me, 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' is definitely a landmark. It has taught me so much.

Sport has given me drive and discipline. It also taught me to remain humble.

Lizzie Armitstead

I'm not going to try and go after Meldrick Taylor. He's too dangerous and much faster with his hands.

If Jermain Taylor was a bit fitter and he had a bit more steam in the tank towards the end, he might have survived and won on points, but he didn't have any energy left in the tank, because I sapped it out of him. I absolutely punched holes in him for the last three rounds.