Quotes About Athletics

The big challenge is looking ripped and lean without being too big because on camera, it's easy to appear thick.

I've been booed in Holland and in Uruguay - as a professional footballer, you need to have thick skin and just get used to it.

When I was in first grade, the kids called me 'fatso.' It hurt, but the way I overcame it was to outrun every kid in the class. So I developed a thick skin, and athletics became my way of performing and being accepted.

Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything.

Inner-thigh strength is important, and not just for appearance sake. If you enjoy - or have always wanted to try - ice skating or roller blading, strong inner thighs will come in handy.

When I was a kid I did marshal arts, and then I did all-star crazy competitive cheer and dance, and then I swam so I was very muscular. You know, healthy, but not quite as thin as I am.

I probably had the most fun ever in the ring with Christian. And it was because he could just pick stuff up out of thin air and make it something. Neither of us were these big high-fliers; none of us were power guys doing these big, crazy moves. But the finesse and the things were smooth with me and him.

I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen.

When you train as hard as we do, bad things happen sometimes. It's just part of the sport.

The NHL is a fast-paced game, things happen quick when you've been out of action for a while and it takes some time to catch up.

If you look round the world, most teams want guys who can bowl up at 90 mph because they can make things happen when it isn't doing much.

Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.

When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I'm probably thinner now than I was in high school. I had a lot of muscle - a lot of muscle in high school.

If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.

You don't have to be built like Karl Malone to be strong. There are thinner guys who are really strong. Kevin Durant, who I used to work with, has real strength to his body.

Even the slowest guy can go from first to third and help win a ballgame.

I made the varsity team as a freshman at 15. Then, I tore a tendon and never fully recovered. I was a shortstop, then third baseman, then second baseman.

The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games.

But I got a guy on third, I was in a jam the other day in a game, all those situations, when you need a strikeout there, in big spots. But we are very aware of that fact, that these guys put the ball in play.

I feel good. I'm up there. I got third in the 100 'fly, I've qualified in the top eight already for the 100 freestyle.

I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games.

You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.