Quotes About Athletics

No one has to talk disrespectful to anybody. We're just here to run.

The numbers I've shot, the percentages, they obviously are what they are and people are going to dissect everything but, I honestly feel like they're all going to go in when I shoot the ball.

2018 is a big year for me with the Commonwealths in April and my university dissertation due in May so a World Championships in March would be difficult.

I can't understand how some guys get tired after one round. If you can't go the distance, why are you even in the fight?

That's one reason I think the 1,500 is so exciting. You have to be strong, have to be a distance runner. But in that last hundred you are going all out.

I mean, I think from the competitive side, especially as a defensive back, you don't mind that pressure, going out there on fourth-and-15 or whatever the down and distance.

Sport instils discipline, and it's a distraction.

I was a decent 800 m. runner, not 400 - and I'm actually really proud of this: I beat the girls and the boys to win my school 800, so it was a big deal at the time; I was about 11. Then I won the district and made it to state, but I just never went, because I was training, and tennis was a big part of my life at that point.

I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.

I don't dive. I'm not a player who dives.

I'm in a Catch-22. If I don't go after a ball, I'm lazy, I'm not giving it 100 percent. If I do dive for the ball - which I did, and blew out my shoulder - it's, Why did I play it so hard?

I think when I dive on the court, I dive not for people. To be honest, I gonna hurt myself for people?... I dive because I want to win the point.

Bobsledding is an expensive sport.

For me, it's always been tennis. I haven't really explored any other avenues.

I know that I have explosive power in both hands.

I think wrestling was the most fantastical thing I was exposed to.

Sports are something that, for the most part, are for kids, and if you're able to extend your career, you're very lucky.

What I'm doing with my body and with my golf game, I'm trying to extend the longevity of my career.

I felt pain every night. After games, it took me a long time to walk to my car, and the driving home, it took me a couple of minutes even to get out of my car and extend my legs and just walk.

I actually think I play better with pressure, that extra pressure when the team needs something more and things like that.

I have lots of energy, but that doesn't happen like magic. I put in many extra hours in the gym and with the physios.

I just have that extra boost in games. I don't know why.

It's very, very extreme how much food I need to put in to my body. It's a lot of work. More work than people realise.

Good sports facilities are a blessing.