Quotes About Athletics

I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life.

I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.

In order to succeed on the athletic field, it is necessary to succeed in daily life. Your spirit and your life must be perfectly trimmed for the chi to flow properly.

Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.

Due to a life of training and playing, I seem to spend half my time in the shower.

Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

I don't gamble at all, all my life. I am only interested in sports.

Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.

The way I played the game, the way I live my life, is very emotional.

The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.

I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.

I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.

High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing... everything else is just figure skating.

Muscular Christianity

Cheerleaders are angels - we're the only humans who can fly.

It's hard to be humble when you can jump, stunt, and tumble!

I get a kick out of soccer.

If cheerleading got any easier, it would be called football.

Give blood. Play hockey.

Concerning football playing, I protest to you it may rather be called a friendly kind of fighting, rather than recreation.

One of the great disappointments of a football game is that the cheerleaders never seem to get injured.

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

In 1979 Griselda Drown was a senior volleyballer at Boise High, a terrifically tall girl with trunky thighs, slender arms and a volleyball serve that won an Idaho State Championship despite T-shirts claiming it was a team effort.

U-M has provided me the chance to live my dream of playing college basketball and to earn a Michigan degree.