Quotes About Athletics

My favorite opponent is probably Randy Orton.

I've heard that I could be facing Randy Couture. That would a great.

It's an honor to fight someone like Randy Couture.

I want to get faster every year, keep my confidence high, so I can continue dominating my main events and extend my range to other freestyle and medley races.

You have to have a great fielder at shortstop, and you've got to have a guy that has good range and good hands in center field.

The beauty of having played pro football for so long is that people haven't seen me angry, overly happy or despondent - the range of emotions a human being shows.

I really believe that I'm a better fighter than Gabriel Gonzaga.

I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

Things for me really started to click right after my third year in the league. I sort of figured out that there were a few things that I needed to do if I wanted to get better - I needed to gain some more weight and add some strength.

I always want to play. It is important to gain match rhythm.

I want to gain as much weight as possible, and I want to see what I can do with that weight once I'm all done.

I think as competitors, that's why we get into this, to gain respect from the guys who have played the game, and you walk away and they say, 'He was a tough cover - that dude was nice.'

I don't want to get too much on the football side and gain weight, so I'm as fast on the field.

I've got so many big gains to make in the javelin and the shot put. I know I'm not going to be winning the field in those events, but I need to do myself justice.

I'm one of those guys that loses and gains weight out of my face.

Being able to train nothing but boxing for a full year made me a much better boxer as I brought in professional boxers helped me make a lot of gains.

Athletics is athletics. When you do sport, you are gambling. You run, you win, you lose. It doesn't matter if you are competing or you are not competing.

I like competing. Just going out there and battling. Having a game plan and going out there and executing it.

I always like to score in the big games.

You want to play as many games as possible, you want to stay sharp, and there is nothing like game fitness.

New York, playing in the Garden, I've always been a player who likes to play with a lot of people watching.

The best player I ever coached was Gary Payton.

I'm not going to throw haymakers the whole fight; I'll gas out.

I was the kid in basketball camps wanting to see the new gear that comes out or the gear that the camps give.