Quotes About Athletics

What I miss when I'm away is the pride in baseball. Especially the pride of being on a team that wins.

In international meets, like the Olympics and Asian Games, drug tests are mandatory. When everything is in place, then only will the records be ratified. I am not saying that people are taking drugs. Everybody knows what things are going on on the field. I know; everybody knows what's going on.

To play 100 Tests is a lot of miles in the legs and just thinking about that many as a fast bowler hurts my back!

Stan Hansen was a tough-as-nails freshman middle linebacker when I was a senior at West Texas State. He was a damn good football player, but he developed some problems with his knees. When football didn't work out he asked me about professional wrestling.

If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal.

I say it all the time: Texas high school football. It's no joke. It's a big deal. And when you get good coaches like I had at Lake Travis, and then you play other good programs, it develops you very quickly, and it gets you going.

When I started out, I was a basketball player at Texas Wesleyan University.

I want to be the best quarterback at Texas Tech, the best quarterback in the Big 12.

I've really taken a lot of time to work on my Karate, worked on my kickboxing, and Muay Thai.

I practiced everything, from my BJJ to wrestling, judo and Muay Thai.

Who inside MMA that's a champion goes to fight Muay Thai? Nobody. But I love competing.

I train in Muay Thai, kickboxing, traditional boxing, wrestling, jiujitsu, and a little bit of judo.

I have almost 100 Muay Thai fights, so I used to train and fight with really tough kickers.

I've been training in martial arts since I was a baby running around the school. Everything from wrestling to muay thai. I started wrestling when I was 15.

When I was competing in Muay Thai I used to fight every month.

I want to thank the public, so I have to keep doing what I do, which is keep winning medals for my country.

Thank the Lord for a mother who was a general as well as a Latter-day Saint; who realized that it was a remarkable and splendid thing to encourage a boy to do something besides perhaps milking cows if he was on a farm, if he had ambitions along athletic lines.

When it comes to peaking at the right time, I have to thank my coach Mike Holmes: he is a genius.

I get up every morning and thank God for giving me the opportunity to play football.

I was not the best student. Thank God I had a lot of hockey talent.

It helps me get rebounds, I can see over the defense pretty easily, and yeah, I thank God he blessed me with height.

I thank God for giving me help to play this game.

I'm just blessed that fighting was an option. Now I'm doing it and I love it. I thank God every day that I'm in the sport.

It's true, I said I would never go down to 115 because I thought I wouldn't be able to make the weight, but thank God we started working on that.