Quotes About Athletics

I was in Cuba in the winter of 1937. I was playing in Cuba, and I'm in the shower, and I slipped and caught myself with my right arm. I felt something pull right then. Then, in '38, when I came back, my arm was messed up.

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track, and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am today and even how I think today.

In the summertime, I played Little League baseball; football in the fall; basketball in the winter.

I played football; I was a running back, and I took a hit, and I had a hairline fracture in my leg which no one spotted, and I was playing basketball all winter and it got worse. And then I was long jumping, about 20 feet, and I landed one time and there was this big crack, and all the bones were jutting out of my leg.

I played rugby in the winter, cricket in the summer, and for a brief period was on the books at Cardiff City. Athletics was only sports day for me. In fact, I never really liked it. I was never too keen on a sport that didn't have a ball at your feet.

It was very important for me to play winter ball. It was very important for me, my arm, and my whole body.

I always love the smell of a bat and a glove, or a hockey puck in the winter time.

Those who know the sport of swimming understand that the grueling practices that fill a pre-Olympic winter lay the base for any success that might come later in the Games, especially if one has it in mind to swim an astonishing eight events.

I'm about 255, but I'd weigh under 220 if I weren't in football. In the hot summer, I feel the extra weight is taxing on my respiratory system. I don't mind it in the winter.

When I was 13, tennis became more of my life. It's when I gave up skiing, I gave up winter sports. I still played varsity basketball my freshman year of high school - basketball was the last sport I gave up for my tennis.

It would be nice to do a winter and a summer Olympics in the same cycle.

Our careers are only but so many years, so when you have to wipe out an entire season basically because of injury it's kind of disappointing.

You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.

I have an artificial left shoulder, wired back together after a softball accident.

My experience over my five years at Wisconsin and my one year in the NFL was that there were times where I couldn't play the game safely. There are positive measures we can take... but on a lead play, on a power play, there's violence.

I grew up in Wisconsin loving hockey. I mean, I started when I was three years old on skates.

In college we didn't pass block the way they do in the pros - they played the I-formation at Wisconsin.

I love eating it - grilled chicken, pasta, rice, and other foods that give me long term energy. Every once in a while, my sweet tooth gets the best of me and I have to snack on some candy. Beverage wise, I stick to sports drinks, water, milk, and juice.

Jimmy Snuka was one of the great performers in the business. In ring performance wise he was phenomenal.

I love to play the game. But I think health wise, that's the most important thing.

I think I chose wisely. When it came down to it, I knew I was a better goalkeeper than I was a bowler.

We have a tough schedule this summer, so I have to plan my schedule wisely if I want to be able to last throughout the season.

I wish I was a great cricket player, but I am not.

I wish I could be good at gymnastics.