Quotes About Athletics

criminal law, a field that presented many of the same conditions and offered many of the same rewards as topflight athletics. It had the same elements of intense preparation and concentration, of confrontation in a circumscribed arena, where passion and aggression were bound by elaborate rules, of the final decision, and the emotional charge that went with it: won, lost, guilty, not guilty.

She transcends her sport, which is what any sport needs...And she does it while smiling the whole time. It's kind of a joke, but then again it's not, especially if you're a male pro trailing in her wake. To have this woman in the middle of such a suffer fest out there crushing people and smiling all the way...

Gibney, we gotta win this fucking Tour de France.

If the US Open was a two-week trip to Ibiza, Wimbledon was a meditative hike through a scenic national park.

I just do what I'm told. If I felt like talking, I would explain that she couldn't pay me enough to play on her basketball team. All that running? Sweating? Getting knocked around by genetic mutants? I don't think so.

Finally, our own Devils hulk into the gym. The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football.

I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny, but it is always interrupted by the basket.

The angle of entry of the ball equals the angle of release. You cannot deny the laws of science.

I was not talented enough to run and smile at the same time

Guys ask me, 'Why are you always smiling?' Are you kidding? I'm in the NFL, that's why!

These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

She thinks hockey and football are very dangerous.

I am not a sports girl.

All sports are games of inches.

There are almost no sports within which mortal accidents are not a reality.

The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness

I've had asthma my entire life.

I train every day of my life as they have never trained a day in theirs.

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

Few things in life match the thrill of a marathon.

The most fun I ever had in my life was hittin' a baseball. And the best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat. Powww!

I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.

I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.