Quotes About Athletics

I'm not a nice guy on the field, and I've never really respected a guy who's been a 'nice guy' on the field. I want opposition to be hard, to play to win the game for their team.

When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.

My job is to go out there and win one-on-ones and make plays whenever it's called.

I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.

I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.

But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.

Everyone sees me as a defensive-minded guy, but both sides of the court are important. If you want to win, you have to be good on both sides.

I'm just a physical player and I just try to make physical plays and just plays period for my team and do things that they need me to do to help them win.

When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.

It doesn't matter if it's Spencer Dinwiddie, Taurean Prince, DeAndre Jordan, I'm trying to win that matchup every time.

As a quarterback, your job is to move the football and win games, to be a leader on the field.

I'm a drop-back passer, and those seldom win Heismans.

I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.

I don't speak English, so I'll just have to win the trust and confidence of the fans with my performance on the field.

Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

I would like to fight as hard as I possibly can in each and every game and win or lose, leave it at that, and move forward. I know in my heart that that is the mindset I need to be a successful and happy athlete.

Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions.

When I go to Japan, they don't care if you win or lose; they just want to see a good fight.

Did you ever run behind a slow pack? You get a trailing wind and a lot of body odor.

What we accepted as great art - whether the book, the script, the painting, the symphony - is that which could be saved and savored. But the performances of the athletic artists who ran and jumped and wrestled were gone with the wind.

We used to play touch football, where you put the little rag in your pocket. I was good because I was fast. I wasn't the greatest at catching. Sometimes the ball would come so hard and fast that it'd knock the wind out of me.

When you drop-kick someone you have maybe a second's time to jump into the air, hit your opponent directly with both feet and then land without getting hurt. If you lose your balance in the air, though, you'll wind up with cracked ribs and bruised kidneys.

A basketball was in my hands 24/7, playing one-on-one against everybody and anybody, trying to prove against the older guys, just playing. The wind blowing outside, double rims, stuff like that, just always playing ball.

The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor.