Quotes About Athletics

I was just want to get some good fights and as many as possible.

Back in the day, you used to have to fight three or four fights in one night with no dodging nobody, and that's what the sport got built on.

All of my fights, especially all of my UFC fights my whole career, I've never been in there without any kind of impingement and pain wrong with my back.

I know that the only way I'm going to advance in this sport is to be exciting and to finish fights, and I'm fine with that.

Anyone who has seen my fights knows I'm going to put on an exciting performance and give you your money's worth.

I've been through Strikeforce, UFC now, but I never leave fights busted up.

My goal is to win and to finish fights quickly.

Any fighter who is serious about boxing wants to be in those big fights, fighting the best fighters, with the whole country watching and talking about it.

I am a distance runner, a marathoner... literally and figuratively.

I have figured out it's not what you do on the field, it's how many games you play in.

Offensively, I get the ball a lot and I'm able to score in double figures.

I genuinely enjoy watching the full-back run up the pitch and going across to fill in.

The world is filled with great sporting events.

The roar of the crowd when you come out for a final is like nothing else: when 15,000 people are cheering you, a lot of adrenaline goes right through you.

I've scored five goals in the most important three finals, and we won all of them.

My goal is to play better than my seed. If I'm seeded sixth, I want to try to go to the semifinals. If I'm seeded third, I'm going to shoot for the finals.

LeBron's had so many legendary moments because he was in the NBA Finals eight or nine years straight, and because to that his brand will endure and keep growing.

I understand my game better and what I do well, what I do is shoot the ball and finds ways to score and that was the feedback from the coaches to me - remember who you are and let the ball fly.

If I had to say how much I've paid in fines over my career, I'm sure it's over $500,000, going toward $1 million.

As a girl, I was a member of Birchfield Harriers, who had Kathy Cook, Tessa Sanderson and Sonia Lannaman in their team. Those were some of the finest athletes in the country, so it was great to see them up close.

Sometimes you've got to be able to finish at the rim.

When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.

In cycling, you just race. When you get to the finish, you see the result.

One of the most fantastic experiences I ever had was as a decathlete. I finished fifth in the nation my senior year of high school. I had no training or nothing.