Quotes About Athletics

For me to stand there and try to pick my punches, I can't do that.

I throw a bunch of combos to get to my wrestling, but my punches land, too.

My punching power passes any other heavyweight.

Definitely I don't want to be a punching bag for some other fighters who's gonna make some name, records off of me.

It's a punishment game... only two boxers get in the ring. So when we get in the ring and we're not angry, then you're not a real boxer.

The sport has to be entertaining, it has to make money. CM Punk brings that.

Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

I'm not in this for superstardom. I do it purely for the love of the sport. I just love fighting.

I have one of the purest shots in the whole entire world, in the league.

When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.

Fighting in the UFC means that I'm at the top of the sport, and it means that I'm able to pursue my goal of being a champion in the UFC.

I had to decide whether I should try to play pro football after high school or try to pursue my powerlifting career.

I did pursue to be a good basketball player.

I pursued the FBS.

One of the cool things about amateur athletics is that, I think, the pursuit is sort of the pursuit of excellence for nothing more than trying to be excellent.

If you grow up with a wrestling coach, you learn differently. If you were late, everything was about push-ups and laps around the gym. I once said, 'Am I on a wrestling team or a damn track team?' That resulted in me running for the entire practice. It gives you a certain mentality.

Athletics, for me, was something I was pushed towards. I really wanted to play football when I was younger. Over the years, I started to enjoy it more and learn about it.

My dad demanded results. I wasn't expected just to be a student, I was supposed to get straight A's. My dad didn't want me just to play sports, he pushed me to win state championships in high school and national championships.

It was my mom who pushed me. My mom actually pushed my dad to train me. My dad knows what it takes to play at this level and be a really good basketball player, and he just wanted me to make the choice for myself.

I wanted to drop the weight class to go to the 125s, and I played it off on how easy it was going to be. 'I can do this, no problem, I always cut weight.' I pushed my body to the extreme.

Because I'm pushing my body so hard already, the last thing I want to do is have music that's really too strong, in my head.

I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.

In basketball, there's a lot of pushing, grabbing, and shoving going on that nobody else sees. That's why I'm training with MMA fighter Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone.

Personally, I feel like there should be some sort of cap on the quads, but we should still be pushing it to a certain number.