Quotes About Athletics

Everyone has to remember, I've always said that soccer is my number-one sport.

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

Good players win volleyball games for you, not tall players.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.

It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.

There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun.

I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.

I'm a big believer in the whole world of sports.

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

In what other sport do you get a 15-second break every hour?

Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.

Without spontaneity in any sport, you cannot succeed.

Boxing is your father's sport.

I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.

I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.

I've fallen in love with baseball.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

Cheerleading gave me a love of sports, which I brought to the Senate. I can talk to the good ol' boys about college sports because I follow it like they do.

A modern school where football is taught.

When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.