Quotes About Athletics

Hey, hitting is hard-if you make good pitches that aren't elevated in the zone, you're going to have success.

Hitters are too big, too strong, and their bats are too quick. I have to go inside to have success.

Let the teachers learn the kids English. Ol' Diz will learn the kids baseball.

In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.

Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.

AGONISTES  (AGONI'STES)   n.s.[   Gr.]A prize-fighter; one that contends at any public solemnity for a prize. Milton has so stiled his tragedy, because Sampson was called out to divert the Philistines with feats of strength.

You were an outstanding athlete, Griff, but a sorry excuse for a friend. I guess that's why I'm surprised, and slightly offended, that you would come to me now, like we'd been good buddies, and ask for my help.

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.

I'm me on the mound. I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half inning. I don't have to act. What you see on the mound is what I am in real life.

I played ice hockey obsessively for 14 years of my life.

Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you're putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy.

Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.

I'm lucky - we're all lucky - to be playing a game for a living.

Athletics provided a life preserver for me, and that maybe kept me out of trouble. I never partied in high school. I mostly just dated.

I was a football player and competitor in life.

There's only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.

The saddest day of my life was the day I didn't get to play football anymore.

I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.

I could field as long as I can remember, but hitting has been a struggle all my life.

I've been telling people I'm in the best shape of my life, I've been training unbelievably hard.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

I always feel like I'm in the best shape of my life for every fight I'm in.

If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.