Quotes About Athletics

I basically run on two hamstrings on my right leg and three on the other. I'm losing a third of the power.

I don't ever remember seeing a base runner who was all the way to third base run back across the mound. It was kind of a respectful thing.

Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.

The Caribbean is all Third World islands and it's very tough to raise the money for sports.

I first got involved in soccer when I was three years old. And I played until I was sixteen, so for thirteen years, and I love it.

I always ran very fast and jumped very high but when I was about thirteen it was more of a choice between football and tennis, and I went for tennis.

I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties.

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

I coached Derrick Thomas for the first three years of his career. He was a special player.

I think Isaiah Thomas has been a really nice player for the Kings.

Thomas Muller is an excellent player.

One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

I thoroughly enjoy doubles, everyone knows that.

In football, I need full concentration even though I really enjoy it.

A company like Nike can convince people to buy Air Jordans even though they never saw Michael Jordan play.

I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural.

When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen.

Our boxing is not like the men's. It's more thoughtful, more technical. It's not just, 'Get in there and hurt someone.'

I've had over seven thousand pro fights.

It's really cool. I don't know how many people in the world have a silver medal. Maybe a thousand?

But sex as a physical act is merely athletics, a momentary relief. What it needs to be powerful is desire, and the strongest element of desire is longing. It's in the work. Desider-, sidus: from the stars. The longing that reaches beyond space and time.

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

Studies have found that old-fashioned lie-on-the-floor static stretching reduces your ability to produce power,