Quotes About Athletics

Golf is played with the arms.

The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.

I am really passionate about sports in general - especially water sports.

I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess.

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running.

I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none.

I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.

As the saying goes, Bruce Jenner is a millionaire, and Mark Spitz is a dentist. It's the wrong sport.

I was well-rounded, I'd been to college. It wasn't that I couldn't do anything else. I wanted to stay in sports, but if I couldn't think, how was I going to play?

For me, tennis is a sport. It's not a job, it's a sport.

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well.

In terms of history and sports, I don't think people will forget.

Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner.

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.

When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team.

Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.

Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my - my brother and I both loved sports.

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.