Quotes About Athletics

If you're taking performance-enhancing drugs and you get caught, in my mind, you should be banned for life.

Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden.

If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency.

It hurts every day when you practice hard. Plus, when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?

I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one.

I keep my weight low, although you need to be able to move your weight around the race car to change the balance. I'm 6ft and I'm 70kg so I haven't much fat on me.

I can't eat whatever I want, definitely not. I'm always controlled because I do a lot of fitness and triathlons, not just Formula One, so I always make sure I eat the right things.

If you look at anybody who's been marketed, it's been somebody who has been drop-dead hot and gorgeous,' Milbrett said. 'For men, you just have to be good. It doesn't matter what the hell you look like. For women, you have to be good and you have to be gorgeous. Maybe you're not even the best one on your team. Just as long as you look good, you're marketed. People's opinions are that this team is gorgeous. That doesn't bother me. What bothers me is the double standard in society and athletics.

The culture that trains women to be acquiescent is fundamentally at odds with the culture of athletics.

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

They which run in a race run all, but one receives the crown. " But of us on the other hand it is said: " So run that you may obtain. " [ 1 Corinthians 9: 24 ] Our master of the games is not grudging; he does not give the palm to one and disgrace another. His wish is that all his athletes may alike win garlands.

All the Padres need is a flyball in the air.

And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.

At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3.

Grubb goes back, back... He's under the warning track and makes the play.

Johnny Grubb slides into second with a standup double.

McCovey swings and misses, and its fouled back

Montreal leads Atlanta by three, 5-1.

Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.

Rich Folkers is throwing up in the bullpen.

That's Hendrick's 19th home run. One more and he reaches double figures.

That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres -- two doubles and a triple.

The final score after eight innings is Giants 3, Padres 2.

The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.