Quotes About Athletics

Brazil doesn't get a lot of gold medals, so whenever I get a chance, everybody expects me to win, and to get second is a big disappointment.

They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.

Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.

I was running sub-13 minutes for 5,000 when I was still coached by Alan Storey, and I won double gold at the Europeans in 2010.

In Sochi, I felt like I lost a gold.

Getting three gold medals is something I'll really cherish.

If I'm at my best, I feel I must win gold all the time.

I'm confident I can take the gold in Beijing.

I'm going to win a gold medal.

Everybody expects me to win the gold medal.

I'm chasing that gold medal.

I want to play for my country and win a gold medal.

Golden Oreo cookies. I've got 10 boxes of them in my room. I am obsessed with them. But I burn them right off in practice.

I was always happy off the court at Golden State. It was on the court that I was frustrated.

I've done golf and fitness shoots, but in those I'm still fairly covered up.

The beautiful thing about the game of golf is you can play good golf and compete well into your later years, and you can't do this in basketball or football or baseball. But in golf, it's a longer live sport.

When I foul, I'm gonna make sure you know I'm fouling.

If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters... nobody except me.

I had a good deal of power work - lots of plyometrics, callisthenics, tossing big tyres. It's all geared towards having that explosiveness available when you need it.

There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.

I do a good job of taking care of my body.

Brock Lesnar, he did a pretty darn good job. He was a WWE star. He came to the UFC and won the UFC belt.

Bobby Cremins really knows basketball, and he is a good man, too.

One of the things Coach Salazar always tells me is you're in just as good shape as anyone else and as long as you're in it with 400 meters to go, you can't give up.