Quotes About Athletics

Pace is just how fast we can get the ball from one end to the other. It's not necessarily how fast we can shoot. It's just a tempo thing.

Because my lower body is quiet, I need a full shoulder turn to generate power and speed. Keep your tempo smooth, and with the quiet lower body, you don't have to worry about losing your balance.

I think I can help push the tempo just a little bit... I feel I can get the ball after a rebound. Push the fastbreak. Push the tempo. Get guys some easy shots.

The roar of the crowd had thundered through both fighters' veins like a second pulse. Strike

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. (Marathon runners are exceptions to this.)

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Nesseby broke new ground in other ways as well. The fixture consisted of a ski-jump, followed by a separate sprint-like cross-country race. This was the first known Nordic combination in the modern sense.

Studies show mental rehearsal helps weekend athletes sharpen their golf, their tennis, their running, whatever their favourite activity. Experts agree if you see the pictures, hear the sounds, and feel the movements of your body in your mind before you do the activity, the effect is powerful.

I am for hockey. I find I should like to hit something with a stick. -Gemma Doyle Trilogy

To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.

I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.

I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.