Quotes About Athletics

I have a responsibility and a job as a guy who gets paid a lot of money, I'm expected to perform. And 82 games in 6-7 months is a lot, and it's hard on the body, and you're not gonna play perfect every night. Even Ray Allen misses shots, even LeBron misses dunks.

I always thought Ray Bourque was a great competitor.

Ray Pearson, played for UCLA. He's a friend of mine.

I know one thing: Ray Mercer is not going down from a head punch. I think he's got one of the best chins in the game.

Ray Clemence was the best in the world at having nothing to do for 89 minutes and then in the 90th minute making a great save.

Hey, you can't play football forever unless you're Brett Favre or Ray Lewis.

Obviously this all-time leading scorer thing I knew was out there and I thought, 'Man, if I stay healthy, I would like to reach that goal.'

As a scientist, I play in the top league - the Olympics, the World Championships - and I want to be in the lead. As a runner, I set personal goals, and I want to push beyond my own personal limits. I was very happy when I practiced for several months and then reached my goal to run a marathon in 2:50.

For anyone that's reached the NFL, especially top picks, you just come from success.

To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.

I have kind of reached the pinnacle of wrestling.

I don't like to guess. Just react. Some guys are guess hitters. I just could never do it. If you guess and guess wrong, you have no shot of hitting anything else.

It's really tough when you have back injury because you cannot bend; you cannot react at the balls.

It's in that moment - when millions of fans are holding their breath as the football hurtles towards me at 80 mph, and all I have is within 0.42 seconds to react - that I need to feel mentally and physically prepared.

I try to take the mental aspects of every sport that I've ever played and use it toward kicking, how to react in certain situations.

I think the concept of minute restrictions is kind of complicated. I don't think there should ever be minute restrictions. I think it should always be about how my body feels and how it's reacting.

I think I've gotten more comfortable and more confident on the defensive end. I've just been able to anticipate things a little bit better instead of reacting to how guys play offensively.

You got to have a lot of mass to be able to produce a lot of ground reaction force, to function off of the ground, to press off of the ground.

Football is a reaction sport.

My best pitch is my fastball. It's probably the most difficult pitch to hit. In my case, batters have very little reaction time.

When I'm in the ring, I can hear the reactions and know the people are enjoying themselves.

At the end of the day I'm a basketball player. I'm going to try and shoot more threes than mid-range or long twos or whatever. But if someone gives you a shot, you're a basketball player, you got to make reads and play.

I feel like I'm making the right plays and right reads each and every night, so if I keep doing that the assists are going to come.

There is nothing else can get you ready for matches than matches.